Windows 10: Win 11 File Explorer search option - by name only!

Plz help: I need Win 11 File Explorer to search only by file/docs titles/names as it did in Win 10. I do NOT want other files to appear in search results which probably contain search words in their text.I used to search by typing only parts of needed words in the search, e.g., grea cit, and it found a pdf with the words great city in its name.Thank you

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File Explorer Search Not Working


I am trying to search in File Explorer (Windows Explorer, My Computer) and it will not find anything. I can copy text from a name in the list and paste it in the search box and it still finds nothing. I have looked at the suggestions that have been posted and nothing I find that is relative to this works. Anyone have any suggestions? I am running Win 10 Pro on an I3 coustom desktop computer.

 

Search for Missing files in File Explorer

Hi,

Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.

I understand that you are looking for a file named “Class” with the length of the file. However, currently File Explorer doesn’t have the option to search the files using the length.

You can follow the steps mentioned below to search for a file in File Explorer using the Size, Kind of file and other options.

1. Press and hold Windows key + E to open
   File Explorer.
   
2. Click on This PC on the left pane.
   
3. Press F3 key to open Search options.
   
4. You can select the Size,
   Kind of file and other options and then, search for the file.
   

Hope it helps.

Please reply with the status of the issue, we will be glad to help you further.

Nikhar Khare

Microsoft Community - Moderator

 

File explorer search defective

Win 10 build 1990 file explorer search will return list of files if you input the correct name of the file(s) you are looking for and if you enter only the first few characters of the file name it will return a list of every file with names beginning with
those few characters BUT will NOT return any result if the search characters are not at the front of the file name. ie. if you search for "ab" the results will be a list of files beginning with "ab". But files with names with "ab" in the middle of the name
eg. "nab.exe" will not be included in search result.

This is contrary to all computing search conventions past and present and should be considered a defect.

Is there a way to rectify this deficiency?