I suspect that in the first case it is using a "property" of the file hidden somewhere, and that most of the time you will want to be searching for "filename".
If you want these substrings to appear in your filename in any order it's a bit tricky. You have to do something like this:. Sign up to join this community.
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Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Community Bot 1. Ivan Castellanos Ivan Castellanos 1 1 gold badge 5 5 silver badges 12 12 bronze badges. When the Windows Search service is not running, searches might be slower, and you might not be able to find all items. Problems with the Windows Search service can cause searches to fail or return incomplete search results. Problems with the Search Protocol Host might indicate errors in the Windows Search service, which can cause searches to fail or return incomplete search results.
Search and Indexing Find items on your computer using Windows Search. Package Version: 1. Anything else I should try or look up? I cannot imagine that a business edition of Windows 7 would lack something so fundamental as Search. CmdrKeene MVP. Firstly, By default, Windows only searches inside files if the location is indexed so it can return near-instant results. You can tell Windows to do an intensive search just like XP would have done.
Open Folder Options type 'folder' into the Start menu to find it. On the Search tab, click the 2nd option "Always search file names and contents" , then click OK. After that, using quotes to phrase-search inside files should work, even in un-indexed locations. Searches may take a while just like XP , but they'll be complete and should return the results you want. One more note: If the location is indexed, but your phrase isn't being found Customize the Taskbar in Windows What Is svchost.
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T-Mobile iCloud Private Relay. Avira Antivirus Crypto Miner. Linux PinePhone Pro. Google Green Messages. Xonatron Xonatron Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Isn't the reason people use the for loop, because findstr can't display the full path for each search result - making recursive search results useless? You will need it. Check here: ss Community Bot 1 1 1 silver badge. Use the findstr command from a command prompt window. Here is my three file DOS solution, but I am still looking for a proper Windows 7 solution if anyone has one: 1.
Again, I am still looking for a proper Windows 7 solution if anyone has one. I made a couple of slight improvements: changing the first file to say process. The first change allows me to pass in the search string from the command-line instead of it being hard-coded. The second parameter allows me to run the search routine from a different directory without having to copy the two batch files around everywhere I want to search.
Cheers : — mellamokb. Ha ha ha, epic. I love the fact that the search in W7 is so bad that people are resorting to DOS. A stand! Pauline Pauline 41 1 1 bronze badge.
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