Unfortunately, there??™s no way to instruct Windows to automatically search
non-indexed files when you??™re looking at an indexed location, but there are
two different workarounds. For one, you can tell Windows to abandon the
index altogether; in Control Panel, open Folder Options, choose the Search
tab, and turn on the Don??™t use the Index when searching the file system
(might be slow) option.
But a better choice is to simply exclude removable drives and folders from
your index, as described earlier in this section. When you search an explicitly
excluded folder, Windows automatically skips the index and searches
the actual files therein.
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Shell Tweaks
Other search tips
Who??™s in the mood for some advanced search syntax? Here are some helpful
shortcuts you can type right in the Search box.
Note that Boolean operators AND, OR, and NOT must
appear in uppercase. Also, as you can see, the AND operator
is more or less optional; it??™s used here mostly for clarity.
Figure 2-20. Open the Advanced Search pane so you can search outside the index and get
more complete search results
To accomplish this: Type this in the Search box:
Find files containing multiple terms in any order bottomless peanut bag
Find files containing an exact phrase ???bottomless peanut bag???
Find files with at least one of the search terms peanuts OR pecans OR cashews
Exclude a search term peanuts NOT filberts
Combine operators (peanuts OR filberts) AND (almonds OR hazelnuts) NOT
cashews
Look only in filenames, not file contents name: shiny
Search by filename extension *.
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