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Rick Morrison

Flightless Bird
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
 
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jbresn

Flightless Bird
Rick Morrison wrote:
> 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
 
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Trev

Flightless Bird
"Rick Morrison" <rlmorrison@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:cIadnVu6TOASWMDWnZ2dnUVZ_qSdnZ2d@giganews.com...
> 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
 
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Char Jackson

Flightless Bird
On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:23:42 -0500, "Rick Morrison"
<rlmorrison@earthlink.net> wrote:

>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.
 
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Retroman

Flightless Bird
On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:23:42 -0500, "Rick Morrison"
<rlmorrison@earthlink.net> wrote:

>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
 
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Rick Morrison

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

"Retroman" <invalid@none.invalid> wrote in message
news:3durl5pcuvlu7n83fp72g14tcpvhuql9jv@4ax.com...
> On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:23:42 -0500, "Rick Morrison"
> <rlmorrison@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>>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
 
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LouB

Flightless Bird
Retroman wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:23:42 -0500, "Rick Morrison"
> <rlmorrison@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>> 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
Thx!
 
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cj@heaven.org

Flightless Bird
> On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:23:42 -0500, "Rick Morrison"
> <rlmorrison@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>> 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

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

Flightless Bird
Re: Re: Searching

On 25 Jan 2010 21:47:08 GMT, cj@heaven.org <CJ> wrote:

>> On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:23:42 -0500, "Rick Morrison"
>> <rlmorrison@earthlink.net> wrote:
>>
>>> 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
>
>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 kind:pictures

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

Doug M. in NJ
 
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Char Jackson

Flightless Bird
On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:42:41 -0500, Retroman <invalid@none.invalid>
wrote:

>path:E:/ AND kind:pictures
>
>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.
 
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Retroman

Flightless Bird
On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:42:49 -0600, Char Jackson <none@none.invalid>
wrote:

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

Now fixed, thank you.
 
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