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the search command for file names ONLY
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the search command for file names ONLY
Monday, March 8, 2010 at 3:25 am
Posted by paul rylance
(10 messages posted)
Paul Rylance
How can I use the search command to just get 'hits' on the file NAMES, not the contents?
I see how to do it by not indexing folders, but how to do it on an indexed folder?
It was so easy to switch back and forth between 'file names only' and 'file names
AND contents' in XP, but a considerable search fails to find any way now.
Paul Rylance
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re: the search command for file names ONLY
Monday, March 8, 2010 at 1:27 pm
Posted by abe999
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Sorry, I don't have an exact answer, but I found a page that might help:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/Improve-Windows-searches-using-the-index-frequently-asked-questions
On Monday, March 8, 2010 at 3:25 am, paul rylance wrote:
>How can I use the search command to just get 'hits' on the file NAMES, not the contents?
>I see how to do it by not indexing folders, but how to do it on an indexed folder?
>It was so easy to switch back and forth between 'file names only' and 'file names
>AND contents' in XP, but a considerable search fails to find any way now.
>
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re: the search command for file names ONLY
Monday, March 8, 2010 at 1:31 pm
Posted by MartinM
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An app called Everything (free download) is light years ahead of the ridiculous
search function in W7.
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re: the search command for file names ONLY
Tuesday, March 9, 2010 at 5:05 pm
Posted by rocannon
(106 messages posted)
i agree that the search function in win7 was a step backwards... in 7 league boots!!!
TANSTAAFL!
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re: the search command for file names ONLY
Saturday, March 13, 2010 at 4:33 am
Posted by paul rylance
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Paul Rylance
Thank you for responses to:
abe999.Unfortunately that MS FAQ link tells you the 'backwards' question, how to
INCLUDE file contents, not EXCLUDE them!
martinM. That 'everything' program you recommended looks terrific, I have started
using it! So the problem is quasi-solved. Quasi, because it does feel absurd that
it does something that the giant Microsoft Corporation has apparently decided to
stop doing!
rocannon: "TANSTAAFL"? Robert Heinlein is back from the dead, eh?
Paul Rylance
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