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Using File Explorer to search for folders and files. Use of wildcards. Hard to locate documentation. |
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Microsoft Documentationhttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/71593/windows-file-explorer-does-the-search-function-sup (http://learn.microsoft.com) The “Accepted answer” links to https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/lwef/-search-2x-wds-aqsreference |
Search Results Examples
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“dataself etl” | DataSelf ETL Plus, DataSelf_ETL_Plus.exe, | Win Server |
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Use double quotes around what you're searching for. For example, searching for
"file1.txt"will only showfile1.txt. You can also use wildcards in this,"*1.txt"will give you all files that end with1.txtand start with whatever. – https://superuser.com/questions/1519302/is-it-possible-to-find-files-by-wildcard-and-not-substring-in-windows-explorerIf you need a wildcard for just one character, using
?will work. searching for"file?1.txt"will returnfile01.txtandfile21.txtbut notfile1231.txt, whereas the*will.
my advice is TURN INDEXING OFF! Searches might be slower, but they're at least accurate. Windows 10 search indexing (or default out-of-the-box file searching) simply doesn't seem to be working as advertised. – https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/windows-10-file-explorer-search-wildcard/feeef179-a29c-4197-a8f8-65b6d8a78442