Windows 10: Move Location of Searches Folder in Windows 10

How to: Move Location of Searches Folder in Windows 10

How to Move Your Searches Folder Location in Windows 10


If you regularly search for certain files in Windows, then you could save the search criteria as a Saved Search to be able to quickly access and perform your searches as needed without having to redo the entire search criteria again. Windows saves your saved searches into your Searches folder.

By default, Windows stores your personal Searches folder in your account's %UserProfile% folder (ex: "C:\Users\Brink").

You can change where files in this Searches folder are stored to another place on the hard drive, another drive, or another computer on the network.

This tutorial will show you how to move the default location of your Searches folder to where you want in Windows 10.

*Warning It is highly recommended to create a system image backup first to make it easy to undo if you were to make a mistake in the steps below.



Here's How:

1. If you haven't already, you will need to create a new folder named Searches at the location (ex: "E:" ) you want to move your personal Searches folder to. (see screenshot below)



2. Click/tap on the icon in the address bar of File Explorer, type shell:Searches into the address bar, and press Enter to open your Searches folder no matter where it may be located. (see screenshot below)



3. Right click or press and hold on an empty area in your Searches folder, and click/tap on Properties. (see screenshot below)



4. Click/tap on the Location tab, and click/tap on the Move button. (see screenshot below)



5. Browse to and select the Searches folder at the location (ex: "E:\Searches" ) from step 1, and click/tap on Select Folder. (see screenshot below)



6. Click/tap on OK to apply. (see screenshot below)



7. Click/tap on Yes to move all the files from the old location to the new location. (see screenshot below)



8. Your personal Searches folder and all of its contents will now be moved to the new location (ex: "E:\Searches" ). (see screenshot below)




That's it,
Shawn


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Vista Ultimate - 'User' Folder Location

No tried that.

Can copy the entire folder to D; but Windows still points to C as the location. Can change personal folders location to a folder on D;, but this still leaves hidden files etc on C;. Thus meaning there are 2 Users folders. Have managed to change the Public folder location to D;, with some registry tweaks, but this doesnt seem to work for the entire folder.

any more suggestions

 

Quick Access not searching Pictures folder

Summary, that last suggestion didn't work.

• I moved the pictures to another folder temporarily.

• Then I tried to remove the Pictures folder with option one at Add or Remove Folders from This PC in Windows 10 | Windows 10 Tutorials. Even after rebooting, the Pictures folder remained.
• So I tried using option two. Same thing: reboot >> Pictures folder still there.

• Since there were no troubleshooting steps for this scenario, just for the heck of it, I ran through the restore steps. Copied some pictures into the Pictures folder, ran a Quick Access search and initial problem remains: Searching all of QA doesn't find any files in Pictures folder, running search on just the Pictures folder does. I want to run a global search and find matching files in any/all of the Documents, Music, Videos, and Pictures folders.

That article dates from 2015 and I'm guessing is out of date. I hope it didn't create potential future problems in my registry.

Bottom line: I'm still looking for a fix.

 

Windows 10 Tweaks

Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

• Open a new Explorer window.
• Click View in the ribbon.
• Click Options.
• Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”
• Click OK

credit to Lifehacker.

 

Cannot search in a specific folder [Windows 10]

THANKS A LOT !!

This worked like a charm. Now search is working perfectly

Thanks a lot Ruth, really appreciate your help

 

Unable to open any files/folders using Search function on Windows 10

Hi,

To resolve your concern about searching any files/folders with an index rebuild, we suggest that you follow these steps:

• Go to Control Panel and find Indexing Options.
• Under Indexing Options, make sure that Windows is indexing the location on which your files/folders are saved.

If the files are not listed like the Users folder (Documents and Desktop folders), you can manually add them.

• Click Modify then you should see the list of all locations on your computer.
• Find the desired drive or folder which contains the files you'd like to be indexed and check the box next to it.
• Hit OK and you'll return to the Indexing Options.

NOTE: If you're not facing a total malfunction of Windows Search, you can quickly jump to
Indexing Options by searching from the Start Menu (Windows 7 and Windows 10) or the
Start Screen (Windows 8 and 8.1).

Let us know how it goes.