I received a call last night from a friend, he was asking where the Advanced Search on Windows Vista Explorer (similar to Windows XP) is located. I tried to look for it myself but it was not simple as I expected so I thought it is good topic for my today's blog. Unlike in Windows XP, when you click a folder to search, there is a separate textbox to put the "Word or Phrase to Search". You won't find such search window in Windows Vista but you still can enable searching text within files in five(5) steps.1. From and Explorer windows, Tap Alt. This should show the hidden menu of the windows vista explorer.
2. On the menu, click Tools > Folder Options.
3. On the folder options window, select Search tab.
4. There are three selectable option for searching: file names only or content or both.
5. Choose "Alway Search file names and contents" then click Apply.
Now just type the text you are looking for on the Search box located at top-right of your windows explorer.
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6 comments:
Doesn't work for me. I have a file that contains the word "blue" in the folder but no files come up in search.
This worked just fine in XP. I was reading in another forum where a guy from Microsoft claimed they made things easier. Leave it to Microsoft to try and make things easier and screw them up.
This has helped me search in a domain on Windows 7 (Though there is only two options now Index search everything or Just search everything may be slow)
Looks like some idiot at Microsoft has decided that searching text in a file is no longer important. It worked in XP and even way back in 3.1.
Thank man :)
works fine if the the files your searching are .txt or .doc but thats it.
Sometimes I like searching the file name only, and sometimes I like searching within the file. Now it looks like it's going to be a big pain to switch back and forth. This new method is not what I call an improvement.
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