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Vista Explorer Search Tips

Quite by accident, I discovered some advanced search options using the built-in search box in Windows Explorer. It's the little box in the top right-hand corner of your Explorer windows:

If you search for something but name but can't find it, you get the option of using Advance Search:

Clicking the Advanced Search link shows quite a few search options that are hidden by default.

What I've managed to find today, quite by accident, is that you can specify most of that information from within the search box itself! You just need to qualify the data your searching for with the right keyword. Here are a few examples:

  • type: C#
  • modified: > 4/28/2008
  • created: >= 4/29/2008

Pretty cool, huh?

 
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Wednesday, 30 Apr 2008 06:14 by Re: Vista Explorer Search Tips
It is pretty cool...Now if I only had Vista installed somewhere. :-) - Jason

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