Windows 10: How do you narrow Win 10 search criteria

When you think you know part of a file name, how do you search only for files on "this PC" that have that word or words in the file name. I may be missing something but when I search, I get everything that has the search word anywhere in it and I am left with hundreds of files to scroll through ... documents, PDFs, spreadsheets, you name it. How do you refine the search criteria?

Thanks in advance

:)

 

Windows 10 Intel Wireless-AC 7260 driver requires further installation.

To all,

For what it's worth, there were updated drivers issued, ironically enough, on 10/16/17 for the Intel 7260 card (wireless and Bluetooth).

Here is a link to the page, you can narrow your search criteria on the page:

Downloads for Intel® Dual Band Wireless-AC 7260

Good Luck,

-Richard

 

search w/ wildcards win 10

using search bar

the format u c here works in xp & 2000 - but win 10 says there are no files with that
criteria - it finds the files if u do the search one at a time, which soon becomes very

tedious......
*.flv,*.wmv,*.mp4......will return a list of all

files with flv and wmv and mp4 extensions (using xp or 2000)
is the comma not a delimiter in win 10 ??
I also tried using (a) space as delimiter, no go.....

 

In File Explorer, at the top right where the search field is, click on the little magnifying glass icon and you get a new ribbon menu with search options.
You can also use the logical operators (AND OR NOT) in the search field.
Then there are search filters which prefix a search word, such as, content: name: size:

 

You can narrow the search to certain file types entering either the file extension or file type.

Searching files with a certain extension, use EXT:XXX:

• EXTOC finds all document files with extensions .doc, .docx and so on (any files with extension starting with letters doc)
• EXTNG finds all image files with extension .png

The same with file type, use KIND:XXXXXX:

• KINDOCUMENT finds all documents
• KIND:IMAGE finds all images and photos
• KINDRESENTATION finds all presentations

For example if you want to find a PDF file with partial file name Test you can search for Test extDF, or to find an Excel workbook or spreadsheet Budget you could search Budget ext:xls. Searching a PowerPoint presentation with a partial name November you can search November kindresentation.

You can also combine these and even use so called logical operators AND, OR & NOT. Notice that an operator in search must be written in all caps (upper case):

• November kindresentation OR kind:spreadsheet would find all PowerPoint presentations and Excel workbooks with a partial filename November
• extDF datecreated:last month NOT Budget would find all PDF files created last month except those with partial name Budget
• Budget AND November would find all files where both strings Budget and November appear in the file name

Read more in this tutorial on our sister site the Seven Forums, most of it applies to Windows 10, too: Search - Find More with Filters and Operators - Windows 7 Help Forums

 

A BIG THANKS to Kanata and Kari. I came over from 7 and did not expect or look for the search filters on the explorer menu (in my mind they should have been associated with "search" and not staring at me almost constantly).

It appears that until you have used a specific filter, it does not show up as a suggestion dropping down from the search box when you click on the magnifying glass so all I got were the words I had previously searched for.
But on the bright side, I think 10 lets you use even more finesse than 7 did in searches when you know where to look.

Thanks again.

 

You are welcome *Smile