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Windows XP classic search functionality in Windows 7?

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Mar 15, 20266561 views
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There's a critical regression between the way Windows XP and Windows 7 perform filename searches. In XP, the default is that the entire filename would be searched as a string using using a case-insensitive containment search (allowing you to match the middle or end of a word within a filename). Win…

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Thisismy-reallylongfilename.txt

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Fix for: Windows XP classic search functionality in Windows 7?

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You can use the Advanced Query Syntax, which is probably more powerful, yet also more complicated. They don't make it very easy to figure out how their search works either. tells it to only search through the name property of the file and not date, …

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