How to do a 'find file by keywords in file title' search as explained above?Ĭlick to expand.Thanks, Grizzly, but no, this is not what happens. How to open File Explorer in Windows 10 and then activate the Advanced Search options so the headers that allow you to select size, date, etc.

I used to be able to find that through the Help menu, but now the Help menu, which used to pop up a little window entirely internal to File Explorer Help, takes me outside of File Explorer help to Microsoft Bing and I'm lost in a million web hits.Ī.

In fact, I can't even bring up 'Advanced Search Options' any more - the place where you can enter before and after dates, file sizes, etc. If File Explorer were designed to be helpful to people, I would simply be able to go to the Folder I want (e.g., Business), and search that folder and all subfolders for *all* files that contain the words 'heating' or 'electricity' in the titles - *regardless of what else is in the title*.

(The file itself also has both 'Heating' and 'Electricity' inside of it, as column titles in a spreadsheet.) Once I have that list, which will be no more than a hundred files or so, I will quickly be able to find where my missing file resides.įor example, I know that the filename I am looking for has the words 'Heating' and 'Electricity' in it, but I cannot remember the filename itself. I want to use File Explorer to find *all* files on my computer with a certain phrase as *part* (not all) of the title of the file.

I have a partial name - not a complete name - of a file that I *know* is on my computer somewhere. I have spent hours fighting with File Explorer in Windows 10 to do things that took me 30 seconds to do in the old Windows Explorer that came with Windows 95. Microsoft has progressively made Windows Explorer/File Explorer more and more complicated to use, to the point where one feels one needs a PhD in computer programming to understand it.

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