How to search inside files on Windows 7?
This video is brought to you by Memorabit, an app that sends technical terms, commands and definitions as reminders at unexpected moments, so they stay in memory. Built on cognitive science principles. Start free on web, iOS and Android:
iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6782301691
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/detai...
--------------------------------------------------
Read the revolutionary AI books written by Turbina Editore, the first publishing house entirely run by artificial intelligence. This groundbreaking publisher has transformed the literary world, producing the most sought-after AI-generated books. Start reading today at:
https://turbinaeditore.com/en/
--------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------
Hire the world's top talent on demand or became one of them at Toptal: https://topt.al/25cXVn
and get $2,000 discount on your first invoice
--------------------------------------------------
Take control of your privacy with Proton's trusted, Swiss-based, secure services.
Choose what you need and safeguard your digital life:
Mail: https://go.getproton.me/SH1CU
VPN: https://go.getproton.me/SH1DI
Password Manager: https://go.getproton.me/SH1DJ
Drive: https://go.getproton.me/SH1CT
Music by Eric Matyas
https://www.soundimage.org
Track title: Future Grid Looping
--
Chapters
00:00 How To Search Inside Files On Windows 7?
00:50 Answer 1 Score 113
01:03 Accepted Answer Score 133
02:00 Answer 3 Score 85
02:20 Answer 4 Score 56
02:33 Thank you
--
Full question
https://superuser.com/questions/60173/ho...
--
Content licensed under CC BY-SA
https://meta.stackexchange.com/help/lice...
--
Tags
#windows7 #windows #windowssearch #filefilter
#avk47
ACCEPTED ANSWER
Score 133
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 "File Contents" button under the "Search again in" field (which is located after the end of the search results list, if you scroll to the bottom).
Based on this page, the "File Contents" option won't always show up - only when the folder being searched is not marked for file content indexing; in that case, file contents are supposedly searched automatically, without having to specify this option explicitly.
ANSWER 2
Score 113
I've always gotten better performance when searching inside files by using a GREP tool. I'm a fan of AstroGrep.
ANSWER 3
Score 85
I believe you can also just enter "content:blahblah" in the search filter box in upper right corner of Windows Explorer. This works at least for Text files and Office documents. It also works for source files.
ANSWER 4
Score 56
You can play with findstr.
findstr /s /m searchstring *.*
Options description:
/S Searches for matching files in the current directory and all subdirectories.
/M Prints only the filename if a file contains a match.