Problem searching for files in windows 7 that contain dates


  1. davidox8
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    Windows 7 64bit
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    Problem searching for files in windows 7 that contain dates


    I need to search through files on a windows 7 PC which contain dates in format dd-mm-yyyy, if i wanted to find the date 09-12-1981 it would birng up all the results containing that date but it would also bring up files containing 12-09-1981 in the file name. Another problem is that if i searched 09/09/1981 it would bring up everything in all the dates from 01-09-1981 - 31-09-1981. Is there anyway i can fix this?

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  3. Sir George
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    Windows 7 Professional x64
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    davidox8 said:
    I need to search through files on a windows 7 PC which contain dates in format dd-mm-yyyy, if i wanted to find the date 09-12-1981 it would birng up all the results containing that date but it would also bring up files containing 12-09-1981 in the file name. Another problem is that if i searched 09/09/1981 it would bring up everything in all the dates from 01-09-1981 - 31-09-1981. Is there anyway i can fix this?

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    Does the following link provide any help?

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