file search

Microsoft is redefining file search in Windows 11 with a game-changing upgrade. Users can skip the traditional hit-and-miss hunt for files and embrace smarter, AI-infused, natural language-based search. This update, initially available on Snapdragon-powered Windows 11 devices in the Insider...

Imagine this: you're drowning in a sea of files on your PC, desperately searching for that one presentation you pitched a month ago. You don’t remember the filename, but you recall it contained slides about "marketing strategies" and was presented in April. Traditionally, this would mean...

Hold onto your keyboards, Windows fans, because Microsoft is turning up the heat with its latest update to Windows 11. File searching on your PC is about to get a serious upgrade! Faster responses, more accurate results, and a streamlined user experience—it sounds like a dream come true for...

File management is one of those tasks we all deal with on a daily basis. Whether it’s hunting down that rogue Word document or trying to locate the folder where you saved your favorite cat memes, we’ve all had moments of frustration navigating through our digital clutter. Luckily, if you’re a...

If you’ve ever found yourself wading through endless folders and emails, trying to locate that one critical file for your next meeting, Microsoft plans to toss you a lifeline with a new feature rolling out to Windows 11. Say hello to “File Search,” a feature designed to bring recent and shared...

Hi, This is my first day with Windows 11 and I'm already having a lot of trouble with a few niche things that are pretty important to my workflow. First: if I open the Photos app, for example, the first window opens where I want it to, but any subsequent photos I open while the first is open...

Hello Windows Insiders, today we’re releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20270 (FE_RELEASE) to Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel. Other updates for Insiders File Skill in Cortana You can now use Cortana on your PCs to translate their thoughts into direct actions to open and find files...

which 3rd party software can do it better? "Everything" app is search forever and halt.

Can't get the datemodified: trick to work in my windows explorer. It doesn't show the promised calendar, parameters such as "thisweek" give nothing. Is WIndows 10 a bunch of crap? Never had this and a hundred other problems with 7 but it seems we're forced to use this OS or migrate to Linux...

Mike submitted a new resource: Everything - A Windows search engine that provides instant results of all files on your PC. Read more about this resource...

I “used” to have a .docx file on my desktop but somehow it has disappeared. I searched my hard drive and search finds the file but when I click to open I get the following message: Windows cannot fine ‘file:///c:/<file name> Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again. Is there...

Hi All Expert, Good Day. I have a user which when she search for file/doc in server network NAS is very slow, but other users pc was fast. But when she search for file/doc on her whole C drive was slow but still fine, I would like to check if indexing help to solve the slowness in searching...

Assume I have a big directory tree. 1.) How can I find out all (non-inherited) access permissions of user unequal to the current owner? 2.) How can I find out all (non-inherited) access permissions of users which are unequal to "Administrators" and "peter'? 3.) How can I find out all...

I have a relatively new asus-computer (i7-6700 HQ-CPU, 2,6 Ghz, 8 GB RAM, 64 Bit) + W 10 Home. Suddenly it works really slow, searching files, f.e on both of my external harddrives (each 1,8 TB / each 1,4 TB free). It finds results but sometimes it searches "forever"...?!? Wyh is that so and...

I am having trouble deleting two files. I could not work out why I couldn't delete the first file (a photo), and then it happened again, so it became obvious what I had done wrong. It was in my "incoming" folder in a P2P file sharing program, and I made the mistake of renaming the file after I...

Hi. In Windows 10, the file search available on the toolbar only searches for text strings in the order you write it in the box i.e. if you write 'garrett higgins', it will NOT find any files in which those words appear in a different order or, indeed, separately. Can i change the settings to...

I want to make a iso file of my current win 10 build but in my surprise, suddenly i can not find that "install.esd" file. It used to be in a hidden folder named "$WINDOWS.~BT". But neither i can find the Folder nor the esd file. For information, I didn't do any disk cleanup and also i don't use...

Consider an example directory containing: IMG_0209.JPG IMG_0210.JPG Some_PDF-numKK.pdf If I want to find the pdf, and happen to remember that it had "numKK" in the filename, I might reasonably search "numKK" and expect to find it. In practice though, this will return 0 results. A search for...

Since my upgrade to Windows 10240 from 8.1, file search (windows key + search string) returns no results. Rebuilt index from scratch. Not working. Any hint?

Hi If you click search from the start button right click menu it opens a search panel on the right side of the screen. It has 3 categories, Everywhere, Files and Settings. If I type in the word "Lucy" (I picked Lucy because it's my animated character and there are a lot of files like Lucy...