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How to search inside files on Windows 7?

Fresh7 days ago
Mar 15, 2026831845 views
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In Windows XP we can search for files that contain a defined keyword (inside all files types). Windows 7 can look inside files for a keyword, but only for text files. ( ), not ( ). Microsoft search filters don't contain any filter I can use for this. How is this possible?

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*.doc, *.txt, *.inf, ...

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To get to the Indexing Options: Start --> Control Panel --> Indexing Options See Change advanced indexing options for more information. If you click on the Advanced button in Indexing Options and go to the File Types tab, you will get a list of file types and the way they are indexed. For the file types you want, you can specify that you want the file contents indexed, and not just the file properties. Or you can just do a normal search, and after the search is finished you can click on the "Fi…

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