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Wednesday, January 27, 2016 5:00 PM
I cannot find the searches in windows 10. Where do I locate it?
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Thursday, January 28, 2016 1:53 PM ✅Answered | 1 vote
I cannot find the searches in windows 10. Where do I locate it?
Open File Explorer and click in the Search box, Search Tools will appear at the top of the Window which allows the choosing of a Type, a Size, Date Modified, Other Properties and Advanced search.
In File Explorer Options > Search Tab, the search options can be changed, e.g. Find partial matches.
Alternatively, type the search criteria into the box in the top right of the screen and press Enter.
Example searches are:
1. A minimum file size, simply type ‘size:>30,000KB’ (not the quotes) into the Search box and press Enter. A size range search would be size:750MB..2GB. A specific file type and size range search could be *.iso size:2GB..4GB or *.mp3 size:1MB..4MB
2. type:=.pdf or type:=.doc will display specific file types.
3. filename:x will display files using a partial filename. x represents the partial filename you want to search for.
4. kind:video, kind:music or kind:pictures will find all the videos, music or pictures.
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Monday, February 1, 2016 4:11 PM ✅Answered | 1 vote
Click start button and start typing.
you could also open file explorer [Start+E] then in the upper right corner there is a search box.
if you select in the left pane where you want to search and select your computer, it will search everywhere.
Dan Stolts (ITProGuru)
Tuesday, February 2, 2016 3:42 AM
I cannot find the searches in windows 10. Where do I locate it?
If you mean Saved Searches IMO they are not as obvious any more. I think I used to see them in Links but that has been replaced by Quick access. But Links was the implementation of Favorites so where has it gone? Ah. I see my Searches below in Libraries. How do we use them from there? So, when I open Searches it says Links? WTH? Ah. Searches is a Library so it can contain more that just Searches; they are below Links (perhaps being sorted alphabetically?) And then if I try to search in there the View changes completely! Smoke and mirrors? YMMV.
Windows 10. Still an Adventure ("Twisty passages, all different.")
Robert Aldwinckle
Saturday, September 3, 2016 11:34 PM | 2 votes
I do not see this at all. I open a folder and try to find folders with 93 in them I know they exist, but windows wont find them... W10 is not user friendly.
Sunday, September 4, 2016 5:56 AM
find folders with 93
Then your syntax could be: name:~=93 kind:folder and if the ones you wanted to find were deeper than the level you were at you would have to have Search subfolders checked AND if none of them were indexed you might have to wait a long time. Much faster to use a command shell. E.g. in a cmd window at that level, enter: dir/ad/b/s *93* I used to do that to race File Explorer's Search. I usually had enough time left over to figure out how to do the same thing in PowerShell (and at the time I was still learning PowerShell syntax). Now I would probably beat FE with it too:
PS> (LS -Re -Fi *93* -Dir -Fo -Ea "SilentlyContinue").FullName
I even had time to do it again to get the count:
PS C:\ ((LS -Re -Fi *93* -Dir -Fo -Ea "SilentlyContinue").FullName).Count
1362
Meanwhile FE is just out of the 900's. What can it be doing?
Robert Aldwinckle
Friday, March 10, 2017 7:50 AM | 3 votes
Click start and type does NOT search all files. It searches "most relevant on this PC, Web" -- whatever that means -- but it does not, for example, include "irrelevant" things, like, oh, say, downloads. Unfortunately, it's another reason why Cortana is just screen clutter.
I know I want a file that I have on my PC, but instead of showing that from the index, it gives me Wikipedia articles and Bing ads. Great.
(Yes, I can choose "Documents" or "Apps", but that apparently means only things in the Document Folders or Installed as Apps, again, skipping "Downloads").
Windows Server Division, Microsoft Corporation
Friday, March 10, 2017 1:20 PM
skipping "Downloads"
If you want Downloads you can open File Explorer there by using the Taskbar's Search bar by drilling down to it explicitly (not searching). But that would be silly because it would be faster to click on the Downloads button in the Start Screen Menu (if you have allowed that) or press Win-E and then get into Downloads how ever you have allowed from there. For example, I now have Downloads in my Quick Access section; since we seem to be forced to use that, I have adapted to its quirks. BTW your question has reminded me that I do have a Downloads button in my Start Screen Menu, so maybe I will be using that instead more often.
Robert Aldwinckle
Monday, July 10, 2017 3:14 PM
My issue is that the search box is missing altogether from the top right of the screen on one of my computers. I need it very badly on a production machine that needs to search after doing File --> Open.
It works fine on the other 4 production machines, it is just happening on this one computer..
How can I restore the search box in the upper right?
Thanks in advance
Monday, July 10, 2017 7:46 PM
How can I restore the search box in the upper right?
I remember someone posting that symptom during a preview. IIRC the resolution might have been to make sure that the Search service was running. For example, just issue net start wsearch. So, perhaps the simplest solution would be to run the Search troubleshooter (supposedly our all purpose repair tool for anything related to Search).
Good luck
Robert Aldwinckle
Friday, April 6, 2018 6:02 AM
In File Explorer Options > Search Tab, the search options can be changed, e.g. Find partial matches.
Not true, or perhaps not true anymore. There is no setting for "Find partial matches." How does one turn that off these days?
And hey, Microsoft: Please prevent the code nerds from changing the UI and common tools. They have no idea how the rest of the world works and what the rest of us need to get our work done.
Sunday, May 13, 2018 6:20 PM | 1 vote
The search function in windows 10 is a mess. I tried to search for an image that I created today. For date, I selected today. For type, I selected Photo, and file type jpg. I got more than 1200 small icons from games and websites, and somewhere in there my photo was hidden. How I miss the old Win 7 search.
Sunday, May 13, 2018 10:53 PM
It takes a long time for file explorer search to display results.
The most effective and efficient method to find folders/files is to use 3rd party software.
Tuesday, May 15, 2018 3:30 PM | 1 vote
Search facilities for Microsoft products have always been a joke. I have no idea why. For instance, I have a folder that contains 257 files of the name-form "EDI-GPC.*". When I enter EDI-GPC.* (with or without quotes), the result is the same - one file that meets the criteria shows up, plus five files that have a random mix of bits and pieces of the criteria. Why in the world is it reasonable for that to happen?
If I open a DOS box and type "dir EDI-GPC.*/od" at the prompt, I will instantly get a complete listing of all 257 files in reverse chronological order.
I am certain that if and when I receive a reply to this from a certified MS guru, I will be bemused because there is absolutely no logical, or reasonable explanation for it. I know I will receive (if anything) some convoluted nonsense about re-indexing, and/or logical patterns and such, and Lord-knows-what else, but that will fall far short of explaining why dumb old DOS can easily, and instantly, produce correct results for the simplest of queries, that Windows 10 is unable to even begin to produce.
Thursday, May 31, 2018 6:29 AM
In Windows10 Explorer search box type name:~=informat and all filenames with the text informat some where in the file name will be shown.
See msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb266512%28v=vs.85%29.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396#syntax
It is sometimes abbreviated and referred to as AQS, see answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-files-winpc/file-search-with-wildcards-in-windows-10/cae72309-cb32-46ae-b1aa-bdaf45ba7b99
Friday, January 11, 2019 6:38 PM
How I miss the old Win 7 search.
Well, you might like FileSearchEX then. Has a simpler way to do the same thing.