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Is there a way to modify Windows 7 to have a contextual right click file / folder search capability like Windows XP has?? The search function in Windows 7 is neither quick nor easy. I don't know what Microsoft thought they were accomplishing by eliminating the WinXP search capability. Is that...

Hello I have two Internal Hard disks in my system. First one is partitioned and used for system. i don't have problem on this hard disk. My second hard disk is 500 GB, and is not partitioned. I m using this drive for storing movies and music. The problem I faced is two of the folders are...

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Hi All I'm Paolo from Italy. I have a strange problem with my Pc (window 7 64 bit). Sometimes (2-3 times a day) I have a BSOD. Sometimes I have this problem when I open the "Computer" icon in the Start folder. Sometimes I have this problem when I try to search a file. Sometimes I have this...

I installed Comodo System Utilities 4 the other day to test it. I used Revo Uninstaller Pro to both install it and uninstall it. Revo found numerous leftovers and deleted them all. After removing it and rebooting (past the Windows logo), I noticed a brief message at the black screen just before...

I have tried everything; Rebuilding the search index, enabling and disabling windows searching under Features, and restarting my computer over and over after making changes but I cannot get the start search bar to return any results. For example, I have a .exe file on my desktop called...

I've found a file with the file name "^.~" (as in file name "^" and file extension "~") in my Win7 C: root directory. It's just my luck that searching for this in any search engine brings up no results, so I can't get an answer that way. From what I can tell, the file wasn't already there when...

when i try to search for something in a library folder, windows explorer does nothing. If I go to the actual folder search works fine. Libraries My Documents <-- WE will not run a search here, I type in search box and nothing happens Users myprofile My Documents <-- search works fine...

I just rebooted my desktop running Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 (x64) and received the following error message: RunDLL There was a problem starting C:\Users\xxxxxxxx\AppData\Roaming\ansdp.dll Access is denied. I've never heard of this dll before and a search of Google returned nothing. Searching...

I want to search for videos only on my PC and there is no such filter. I only have "Date modified" and "Size". With XP I could choose what type of files to search for. Is there a way to have the excellent search filters that I had with XP in my Win ?:confused_smile:

Sorry - ignore - Mods can delete post as I just found the answer :) Put the search in quotes! =============== Hi all I unfortunately "hard" deleted a folder I really needed but have thankfully managed to recover almost all of the files in it (nearly 2000 of them!!). The problem now is that in...

The attached SnagIt capture demonstrates all of the weird add-ins I am getting in my Excel app. I am wondering if this is a security problem since I can't locate any of them in my file search

Hi I really don't get this! If a computer can do anything it should be able to find files. Today I needed to find a file that I did for my niece a year ago. I don't remember what I named it or where I saved it. After trying a few things I decided to narrow it down by just getting a list of...

I can't figure out how to search for a file that contains a particular string in Windows Explorer 9. (I have 9 because that's what was on it when I got my new computer. 8 was the best I could find in the dropdown.) What is supposed to happen when you click "Add a search filter"? Nothing...

Hey, so i used windows back up last night and came down in the morning to see that a file on my computer, which was labeled the same as the back up, is missing, although should i use the search function, i can still run them, such as SC2 which was on there as well as alot of other important...

Hello Just recently bought a new comp with window 7. after using XP for many years I find window 7 annoying to use with all this permission errors. So far I have three software when I save my files to a folder it's not in there. When I do a search its not found. When I go back to my program...

Here is some info about how to use Windows Search that I thought was interesting. http://www.howtogeek.com/73065/learn-the-advanced-search-operators-in-windows-7/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=060911 It doesn't explain why it will sometimes not find something that I'm...

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I want to search my entire computer (or perhaps an entire drive or folder structure) for a file called abc.txt. So I navigate in explorer to My Computer (or a drive or a folder structure) and in the top-right corner of explorer, I enter my filename search term. Instead of just seaching for that...

Hi I installed the latest version of Locate32 in place to the one I was using. I was surprised that it no longer seems to add a link on the right click drop down menu. But my question is about the way some files are showing up when I search. I ran a search for .tiff files in one of my photo...