How to Search files in Vista

External Since: Sep 17, 2008 Posts: 199

Fat Doris wrote:
> Paul Montgumdrop;852245 Wrote:
>> Fat Doris wrote:> > >
>>>> I followed your instructions but still couldn't find out how to find
>>> a
>>>> word or string of text contained in a file (but NOT in the title), or
>>>> how to find a file modified in a specific period, e.g. Jan to March
>>>> 2007. Can you help, please.
>>>>
>> Fat Doris, you can use the Advanced Search by using the Windows-key
>> and
>> F-Key combination to get to ADV search. You can then use the Alt-key
>> to
>> pull up the configuration menu.
>>
>> You can go to the Tool menu. You can go to Folder Options, Search tab
>> and select "Always search file names and content. Then Vista search
>> will
>> look for file content in files, even from the Search box of off the
>> Start button or when you do the search from Explore.
>>
>> You can also set this by going to Control Panel and to the Folder
>> Options and to the Search tab.
>>
>> If you're at Folder Options off of Control Panel, then you might want
>> to
>> goto the View tab and check-mark on "Always show menus" so that the
>> menu
>> is present when you go to Explore or to the Advanced Search.
> Thanks you. This tells me how to search in file names and content, but
> not in content alone which is what I want to do. Is there a way to do
> this?
>
>

It's a combined search. It's going to search for a file by name and
data/content in a file based on the criteria you have entered in the
search box.

If the data you are entering just happens to be part of a file name then
it's going to show along with a file that contains the data/content of
the file that matches the search criteria.

However, it might be that if you enter the Boolean operators like AND,
OR, EQUAL, NOT in the criteria that you are using to look for things, it
may refine your search to only looking at file content.

I don't know that for sure, but you can look this information up
yourself on the Search by using Google, as there are for sure plenty
articles out there on the how-to(s) of using the Vista search.

External Since: Sep 17, 2008 Posts: 199

Fat Doris wrote:
> Thanks, that's helpful. Can you also tell me how to limit the search to
> files created say between 1 Jan 2007 and 5 June 2008?
> Yours hopefully
> Fat Doris
>
>

Fat Doris, this information is out there in articles if you use Google
to search for the information, like "How to do file date range search
Vista Search". It's going to comeback with some articles I bet.

Why don't you try it and see what happens in pulling some information
for you?