Windows 10: Why are all File Seaches not "Wild Card" searches?

Something that has plagued me since I began using Windows 10 is how awful the file search function is.


In EVERY case I use the file search function it is to locate a specific file within a singular folder with only a partial name, and each time I was mystified as to why it could never locate any file this way.


The final straw was when I tried to quickly locate a single file within a folder of 5 files with the first word in the file name of my desired file and it came up empty handed. After a bunch of Googling to find out why that was I came across what we're calling a "Wild Card" search, where you put asterisks around your file search inquiry such as*File_Name*.


Although this will allow me to finally use the search function as I would like to, I have to ask the question:Why are all File Searches not "Wild Card" searches? What purpose does a search function even serve if you have to be 100% correct with the file name you're looking for? And why is there no option to make all searches Wild Card searches? Searching for a file within a user made folder should ALWAYS be a Wild Card search! Is there a reason it's like this?

Thanks,

Brian

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Searching file names using wild characters

In searching File Explorer (Win10) the wild character "?" doesn't seem to work when searching for a file name. e.g. "?E1" doesn't produce a list of files having E1 as 2nd & 3rd character in file names. Used to work beautifully in Win 7.

 

Search in certain files


Hi,
how can i search within the content of only certain files ?

Also, is there a page that contains the list for all Win10 search functions ? I'm looking it up since 30 minutes but can't find anything.

I need to seach the term blabla in all .doc files, how is that syntaxed in the Win-Explorer search. Seems its nothing like it was in previous win8 version.

Thx,
Frank

 

Edge Search Does Not Permit Change of Region


I got these suggestions from the Microsoft Community forum.No. 1 worked for me:

Thank you for posting the query on Microsoft Community. I am glad to assist you on this.
We have reproduce the issue here and we are able to access non-regional search for google using Microsoft Edge.
I would suggest you to try the below steps and check if it helps.
Step 1:
Clear browsing data option of Microsoft Edge and check if you face the issue. To do so perform the steps below.

1. Click on the More actions icon next to the feedback icon present on top right corner of the Project Spartan homepage.
2. Select Settings and click on Choose what to clear.
3. Check the boxes Browsing history, Cookies and saved website data and Cached data and files and click on Clear.

Step 2:
I suggest you to create a new user account and check if the issue occurs.

1. Go to Settings.
2. Choose Accounts and then select Family and other users.
3. Select add someone else on this PC.
4. Enter a user name and hit next.
5. Click on Finish.
6. Sign out from the current Account and Log into the new account.

Step 3:
It could also happen because of network issue. I suggest you to try with different network connection and check if it helps.