Azaran on 30/4/2017 at 04:22
I'm trying to fix up my girlfriend's laptop (which has Win 10), and need to find files in a specific directory, but the explorer search function only shows folders in the results. E.g. she has numerous jpegs in that directory, but when I type *.jpg nothing comes up. Am I missing something?
Pyrian on 30/4/2017 at 17:58
Weird. I can't even find an option to make my Windows 10 Explorer act like that. It finds files, not folders.
Renzatic on 30/4/2017 at 18:17
It works about the same as Windows always has from my experiences. Just go to This PC, and in the box in the top right, type *.jpg.
The way it works is admittedly kind of goofy. If you're at the top of the folder hierarchy, it'll search through everything. But if you drill down into a folder, it'll search through only that folder and any folders within it.
Nameless Voice on 1/5/2017 at 09:31
The search functionality in Windows has slowly been getting worse since its height in Windows 2000.
If I actually need to search for something more complicated than a named file, I'd use a third-party program like Agent Ransack instead.
Azaran on 1/5/2017 at 17:57
We ended up moving the directory to the second HDD partition (she was running out of space on C, and we wanted to find what files were the culprits). After moving, the search function is showing the files again now.
I shudder to think I'll have no choice but to use Win 10 in a few years
Quote Posted by Nameless Voice
The search functionality in Windows has slowly been getting worse since its height in Windows 2000.If I actually need to search for something more complicated than a named file, I'd use a third-party program like Agent Ransack instead.
Yeah I'll probably resort to something like that when the time comes
zombe on 2/5/2017 at 05:19
As another long time Agent Ransack user (Win 7 user) - i also recommend it.
Funny that the first thing i always do when installing windows is turn off or replace all the new and fancy services it provides. Like: classic shell, disable and remove every aspect of the search crap (ie. all the indexing and other nonsense), even mod the dll's to remove things classic shell does not have an option for (like the huge bar of exactly-always-completely-and-utterly-uselessness below File/Edit/etc menu bar - whatever it is called. The one with "Organize" menu), etc ... I might be in minority tho. I even disable the recording of last-accessed file times in ntfs just because it serves no useful purpose.
Azaran on 2/5/2017 at 07:29
Quote Posted by zombe
Funny that the first thing i always do when installing windows is turn off or replace all the new and fancy services it provides.
My first priority with Win 10 will be to disable Windows Update. It's really not cool that they're forcing updates now
Nameless Voice on 2/5/2017 at 14:36
I think most technical-minded old-timers do that kind of thing to one extent or another.
