Windows 10: How to locate an EXE file that I have just installed?

More than you think is available using file explorer search- it's just not the most convenient or obvious tool.

For example, search string such as
d.txt nonsense -exclude
finds one file out of several possible text files.




nonsense and exclude
are both in one file, only nonsense in the other.
Specifying -exclude eliminates indexed text files containing the text exclude.

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However file explorer search does not properly respect the use of * & ? in a file name specification as one might hope.
E.g.








At least that's not what I'd have expected.

All that said, as said above, I prefer using a 3rd party tool normally.