Arrrgh, Win7 search fail - why u no work?

bitslice

bitslice

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Ye Gods, what the hell is going on! :eek:
Insanely simple derpy task, ...find which files in a folder (with sub folders) are over 3Mb.


So I right click folder, look for "Search Folder"...
Oh, it's changed on Win7 :mad: :mad: :mad:

err, so now what?
I gather some search terms are required but which ones?

file path is W:\data

I'd google more but this is now far too annoying and I may end up breaking the keyboard over Bill Gates head. What M$ plum removed the old search feature, another stupid focus group?

As there is no way I'm living with this idiocy, can anyone recommend something that puts the old search feature back again?

Ta Peeps :)
 
there's a search box in the top right corner in explorer. :p

admittedly searching for file size isn't as easy as it was...

Code: 
size: > 3MB

or you could just enter *.* to list all files, add a size column and click the header to sort the results.
 
ugh that is ugly,
but thanks guys, it did what I wanted :)

I gather 'content:' is supposed to find text within files if you set the search options for a folder, but that turns up seemingly random results. Jesus this sucks.

:(


If I wanted a complex search function I'd go use unix and dig out grep, thanks Bill, you suck...
 
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