Search Query Too Narrow - Exact Word / Phrase Only And Not Contains
Sep 5, 2015
Recently I was getting confused and frustrate that files I were searching for weren't being included in the search results for my queries. It seems that the search parameters are restricted to "Exact word/phrase" and not "Contains.
Example: search "Broad", comes up fine
Search "road", nothing comes up.
In windows 7, I was able to search for a word and the search parameters would include files that "contains" the word in its name and even "contains" the word in a document.
In windows 10, it seems to be completely restricted to.
When you think you know part of a file name, how do you search only for files on "this PC" that have that word or words in the file name. I may be missing something but when I search, I get everything that has the search word anywhere in it and I am left with hundreds of files to scroll through ... documents, PDFs, spreadsheets, you name it. How do you refine the search criteria?
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