If you’ve used DOS, or the Windows command line, or written a. I have a yellow sticky note on my monitor that says system.filename:~=””. It’s important to realize that the system.filename: trick works all over the place - inside Windows Explorer, of course, but also in the File/Open dialog boxes in various Windows and Office applications. Matches Secrets.ppt, My Secretary.jpg, and win.sec - but it doesn’t match, for example, MySecrets.gif. In other words, Windows matches text at the beginning of a file name, after a space, or after the period - and that’s it. You can use the colon without a qualifier, but you get the weird rules for matching filenames that I described in my last column. (In all three examples above, the searches are case-insensitive.) That returns only files named WindowsSecrets.txt or windowssecrets.txt. If you need an exact match, use the = sign this way: To look for files with names that begin with a specific piece of text, use the ~ symbols.
That will match files with names such as Windows Secrets.doc and MySecret.html. Let’s say you want to find file names that contain the text string “secret.” You use the symbols ~= like this: Though the rules and syntax are a bit strange, it’s possible - even relatively easy - in Windows 7. What if you’re just looking for a filename? Not so long ago, that’s all you could look for. Yes, Windows indexes spam messages - which is to say, mail in your Junk Mail folder - and it’ll bring up the junk if you give it enough time. As I recommended in Part 1, if you have any idea where the text you seek may be located, you’re far better off going to that location (with Windows Explorer, say, or Outlook, or Live Mail) and starting the search from that folder or one above it.
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Typing text into the Windows 7 search box is a bit like sticking a straw into an open fire hydrant. Yes, I still hear from old-timers who cluck-cluck-cluck that even DOS did it better. Windows 7 is useless they’ve even included spam messages in here.” “Whooooa!” (or something slightly less printable) they say, “I only wanted to find files with this text in the filename …. Here’s how most experienced Windows users get turned off by Windows 7’s search: they click the Win7 Start orb, type something into the Search box, and wait while Windows comes back with results - first in bushels, then in barrels, and finally an avalanche. Search for filenames, the new old-fashioned way
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In Part 2, I give you the advanced course, including how to search in Win7 the way you used to in Windows XP, Windows 95, or (gulp!) even DOS. 22 Woody’s Windows column, I stepped you through the basics of searching in Windows 7 - in particular, Win7’s two undocumented search idiosyncrasies that can cause no end of confusion.
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