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Searching for Extensionless Files in Windows 7

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Mar 15, 202613621 views

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I cannot for the life of me figure out a way to have Windows 7 Explorer search for files with no extension. In XP it was nice and simple: just search for files named but in 7, that does not work and returns all files, as does . Searching has become extremely burdensome in Windows 7. Does anyone kno…

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According to MSDN, the nothing character is . So press F3 and enter .

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Searching for Extensionless Files in Windows 7

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