You can search keywords with AND, OR and NOT operators. Here is a complete list of all the file types and their search operators in kind search. You can also include keywords and length (short or long) to narrow down the search. Similarly you can search for kind:image etc. For example if you search for kind:song then song files will appear in results. you can also search quickly by kind of file. this is useful when lets say you want to find all your video files in the laptop, or lets say you want to search all your music in your pc at one place. You can directly search kind operator in file explorer or windows 10 search box.

This particular search trick can make your result sorted as you will only find search result of the file type you want. Note that in above image we wanted to search for chat file name with extension mp3. You can search for any extension by just attaching the extension name after semicolon. Here are sample search strings for different file extensions. Search with that month and you will surely find that image.įor searching files with particular file extension search for your file name followed by ext followed by the semicolon and then name of the extension. The date taken field will be present there most probably. You can verify this trick by just doing a right click on the image and then clicking on properties and then details.

Pics taken by standard cameras have date taken details attached with them. This query will search for all photos on your computer taken in the month of april. If you want to find a picture on your phone, you can search the pic if you know the month in which the pic was taken. You can search for these type of files by date operator. Note that creation of files means a new txt file being created or downloaded. You can also search files by date created. Note: If you have extracted a file yesterday, it will be also termed as modified.ĭatemodified:lastweek Search Files By date Created or downloaded on Your PC The above lines will search for files which were edited / Modified by you yesterday. Which seems only logical, since the more files you have, the more indexes will be present. The size of the windows.edb file depends on the number of files present in your system. Due to such indexing, the search is faster and more efficient. For example if you are working on a word file and you know when you last edited the doc, you can easily search it within specific time ranges. What is Windows.edb File Windows.edb itself is basically an index database of the Windows Search Service. Now, this is very useful if you know when you modified or edited the file. If we search with *, there can be any number of characters in between. Its important to note that, using ? in search will search for unknown characters in the string for exactly the same number of times, ? is used in the string.įor example if we use ? two times, it will fetch search results having two unknown character in between. You can see that searching for c?t gives both cat and cot image in search results. Note that, if you search for something in windows 10 search taskbar, its important to click search my stuff for expanded search results.

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