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[Rick Morrison]

In XP I could go to a directory and search for videos and it would find all
videos (*.avi, * mpeg, *.womb) or whatever with just one search. Is there a
way to do this in Windows 7?

Thanks,

Rick Morrison

 

[jbresn]

In XP I could go to a directory and search for videos and it would find all
videos (*.avi, * mpeg, *.womb) or whatever with just one search. Is there a
way to do this in Windows 7?

Thanks,

Rick Morrison

Go to: http://www.voidtools.com/

Download the free "Everything" program and it will do that search.

JB

 

[Trev]

In XP I could go to a directory and search for videos and it would find
all videos (*.avi, * mpeg, *.womb) or whatever with just one search. Is
there a way to do this in Windows 7?

Thanks,

Rick Morrison

Its top right In the explorer window

 

[Char Jackson]

In XP I could go to a directory and search for videos and it would find all
videos (*.avi, * mpeg, *.womb) or whatever with just one search. Is there a
way to do this in Windows 7?

That wasn't standard behavior in XP unless you renamed all of your
videos to include "videos" in their filenames, or you created a folder
containing the string "videos" in its name, etc.

What search term, exactly, did you search on to find your videos in
XP?

If we can figure out what you were doing in XP, maybe we can figure
out a way to duplicate that behavior in Win7.

 

[Retroman]

In XP I could go to a directory and search for videos and it would find all
videos (*.avi, * mpeg, *.womb) or whatever with just one search. Is there a
way to do this in Windows 7?

Thanks,

Rick,

It's easy -- just type

kind:video

into the Explorer search window. More info on search properties is found
here:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/desktopsearch/technicalresources/advquery.mspx

Doug M. in NJ

 

[Rick Morrison]

Thanks, works great! Quite versatile when someone tells you how it works.

 

[LouB]

Rick,

It's easy -- just type

kind:video

into the Explorer search window. More info on search properties is found
here:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/desktopsearch/technicalresources/advquery.mspx

Doug M. in NJ

Thx!

 

[cj]

In XP I could go to a directory and search for videos and it would find all
videos (*.avi, * mpeg, *.womb) or whatever with just one search. Is there a
way to do this in Windows 7?

Thanks,

Rick,

It's easy -- just type

kind:video[/QUOTE]

and if you want the search to be specific to a drive, then what?

 

[Retroman]

and if you want the search to be specific to a drive, then what?

Click on the drive icon in Explorer or in the Advanced Search dialog, then
type in your criteria. You can also type in a path. For example, from My
Computer you could search a sub folder and a file kind:

path:E:\ AND kindictures

It's quicker to just click the drive icon before entering your query.

Doug M. in NJ

 

[Char Jackson]

path:E:\ AND kindictures

It's quicker to just click the drive icon before entering your query.

Doug M. in NJ

FYI, your newsreader appears to be adding a new "Re:" to your replies,
even when it's there already.

 

[Retroman]

FYI, your newsreader appears to be adding a new "Re:" to your replies,
even when it's there already.

Now fixed, thank you.