Search in windows 7, can it be made like XP


  1. Ikelos
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    Search in windows 7, can it be made like XP


    Hi all.....I have a external HDD, 1 and a half TB, it has thousands of docs and photos, in XP I could search the whole drive for docs and it would find them all, if I typed in JPEG, every image would come up in thumbnail form and it would open every folder till the laptop ran out of memory.

    now I have windows 7 I can find no way of finding all the images or docs.

    sorry if this makes no sense.............is there anything I can do

    thanks
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  3. logicearth
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    "ext:jpg OR ext:jpeg" or "*.jpg OR *.jpeg" etc.

    Or... "kind:picture"
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  4. Ikelos
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    Hi, I do not understand.......totally lost
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  6. logicearth
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    ...type in the search box one of those commands I gave. (without the quotes)
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  7. Ikelos
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    Thank you so much, should have asked hours ago...thanks again, all sorted
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