Windows 10: Want to search for files by date and kind only without specifying text

I want to find all the JPEGs I have created Today. But to see the options Date Modified and Kind, I have to enter some dummy text in the Search box, then click the right arrow: Only then do the options appear. Once I select them, I have to stop the dummy search.


I would have expected all the relevant options to appear once I put my cursor in the Search box.


I do not use Cortana and don't want to.


Thanks in advance for any explanation you can give for this behavior.

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Searching Within Files

I have tried searching within files in Windows 10 for a string. However, through testing, it seems that when the string being searched for does not have a space in front, it ignores it. E.g. if the text in the file is 'The quick brown fox' and I search
for 'quick', it will list the file. But if the search string is 'ick', then the file will not be listed despite the text obviously being there. Any suggestions?

Matt

 

search view not remembered

Hi, this is relatively inflexible.

I would suggest you try Locate32 - this (along with Everything by Void Tools, and Ultrasearch) offer VERY fast find as you type search results- which can be restricted by size/date/extension/ etc etc- All freeware.

Locate32 lets you specify the format of the results (normally I leave it as List)




If you've never used one of these, you will be surprised.
Windows search does allow indexing of text document content- these tools don't.
They index ALL files and folders once- pretty quickly- and then maintain an index.

 

Looking for a program which grabs folders\files and converts it into text

Karen's Directory Printer

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