Re: searching by filename

In the search box type "Name:" (without the quotes) followed by all or part
of the filename you are looking for.

"yawnmoth" <> wrote in message
news:f0ca782c-aced-4a79-8989-...
>I tried to do a search for *.zip and got zero results. I tried to do
> a search for 'yawnmoth' and that time got quite a few results,
> although not all of them make sense - in some cases, I got files like
> "IMG00032.jpg" back. 'yawnmoth' is clearly not in the filename and
> although the binary data may, coincidentally, happen to contain the
> string 'yawnmoth', I don't know why Windows is presuming to search for
> it. Or maybe it's in the meta information but I don't care about the
> meta information - all I want to do is find files whose name confirm
> to a certain pattern.

On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 13:47:12 -0400, "Bob" <> wrote:

>In the search box type "Name:" (without the quotes) followed by all or part
>of the filename you are looking for.
>

Or install a search tool that has an intuitive interface, as opposed
to the mangled mess that is Vista Search.

http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/

After that, you can shut off indexing and the indexing service and
improve system performance.