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The latest monthly roll up update KB4041693 for Windows 8.1 has been released and the changelog is below To access the update history of the monthly roll up for Windows 8.1 go here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4009470/windows-8-1-windows-server-2012-r2-update-history

What is "Everything"? "Everything" is search engine that locates files and folders by filename instantly for Windows. Unlike Windows search "Everything" initially displays every file and folder on your computer (hence the name "Everything"). You type in a search filter to limit what files and...

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...

On a vanilla Gateway PC with 6GB RAM (50%), 500GB available disk space, the HD has started showing a very periodic 100% write usage (~12 sec on, 1 sec off). The Read usage is quite normal. This makes the system extremely slow. Resource Monitor reports many processes with PID 4, but none seem...

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...

This is a minor issue but it is bugging me. I have uninstalled "HP Coolsense" from my PC and can't find a reference to it anywhere. But it still shows up in my windows search (the one that shows up from the right) . . with an icon and everything (unfortunately I can't snip that but I could the...

Hello all, I want to use MpCmdRun.exe to schedule running MSE, but when I search for the program (Start > search box), it doesn't find the program, but the program is exactly where it is supposed to be: Program Files, Microsoft...etc. Further, if I go to the folder in which the program resides...

While trying to add folders to the Search Index, I was informed the Windows Search process was not started. When I go to the Services Console and attempt to manually start, I am given the error: "Windows could not start the Windows Search service on Local Computer. Error 2: The system cannot...

Hello. we are trying to implement a group policy that would redirect employees desktops to a server share. When we look at the existing shares, we find that some employees already have a desktop folder (whcih we assume is from random people saving backup copies of their desktop items). There...

Firstly hi to everyone here on the forums. :) My problem is when I go into computer (my computer) the search in the top right isn't working from within this window! If I click to go into an individual drive the search will then work from within there on the individual drive. When I try to...

Turn AHCI on Trim on: cmd/fsutil behavior query DisableDeleteNotify=0 System Restore to Off Drive Indexing-Explorer/right click SSD drive & select properties/Disable “Allow files on this drive, etc. Paging File=Right click computer/adv...

Hi, I realise this will sound like a very noobie question but I would like to understand what one of the functions of AutoComplete Settings is used for. I am using IE9 and I have worked out that with Browsing History and Favorites enabled these show up underneath the URL bar respectively, but...

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...

Good evening, in an attemp to be brief: I've been using this build for several months without any issues, but suddenly a week or so ago I start having seemingly random BSODs. I believe I've narrowed down the problem to these suspects: AIMP3 (music player, causes some graphical glitches if...

Hello This is my first post but I have been reading the forums for a while already. I am puzzled by how to search for special characters in W7. I have some files that start with the Greek letter µ but I don't seem to find a way to make WS recognize characters like these for searches. When I...

I am trying to use the windows search function to find files with the .xm extension. When I type ext:.xm or fileext:.xm it returns .xml files of which there are thousands on my computer. How do I get the search to only return .xm files? Thanks in advance for the help.

Hi I have been having problems with Windows Search, it finds files that are not there, and won't find some files that are. This relates mostly to a program that was uninstalled and then reinstalled in a new location on my D:\ drive. It has a lot of texture files etc. that go with the...

I have recently purchased a Dell Studio XPS 8100 with Intel i7 processor and 8GB RAM, running Windows 7 Home Premium and preloaded with McAfee Security Center and Office 2010. I have copied across to the hard disk several thousand documents, mostly created in Office 2003, from my previous...

Hi All, Let me inform you first about what ive already tried: 1. Changed indexing folder 2. Rebuilding 3. Googleing 4. Searching this forum 5. Restarted Windows Search service 6. Removed shareing for Users folder 6. Ensured all folders i want indexed have System security on it with...

Search for folder - [no joy in the discussion thread, so thought I'd try here] This seems really simple, and makes me feel pretty stupid, but I want to search for folders with a certain name without getting all the contents of the folders in the search results. I've tried just entering the...