How do I add search filters?

Why can't you just give a straight answer to a direct question? I can't be the only one that is not interested watching a video or wading through articles that may not even answer my question.

P.S. I HATE Windows 10!

How can I search all *.c and *.h files modified between 01/2/2010 and 01/20/2010 like what I do very often in WinXP?

Thanks,

Kuan

Thanks Lisa. When I'm in my iTunes music folder and I click in the search field the only filters I have available to me are "Date Modified" &  "Size". There's "Add a search filter" above them but that's not clickable. I don't seem to be able to dynamically change my search filters. I think I may have some kind of permissions issue going on because ever since I removed the folders that Windows Media Center could see in it's media library it seems to have changed my rights. For example, after doing that I wasn't able to read my music directory until I answered a prompt (after clickin on the music folder) that asked me if I wanted to be able to read the folder again. I also have a little padlock on my user dir now that I'm not sure if it was always there. So long story short I can't seem to add any new filters and my suspicion is that it has something to do with permissions.

Hi MSPRvrView ,

Welcome to Microsoft Answers Community Forum!

To understand your issue better, please let us know the options that you can currently view and the options that are currently greyed out in the search filter.

Windows 7's add a Search Filter options appear in a drop-down menu box immediately beneath the Search text box in a Windows Explorer window. The actual search filters you'll see listed vary depending on the type of drive, folder, or file that’s currently selected in the Explorer window. The filters can include any of the following:

Date Modified: Search for files based on the date they were last modified.

Date Taken: Searches for photos by the date they were snapped.

Date Created: Searches according to when the file was created. You can select the date (or a range of dates) from a mini-calendar that appears.

You can also be less specific and choose: A Long Time Ago, Earlier This Year, Earlier This Month, Last Week, Earlier This Week, or Yesterday.

Size: Search for a specific file size by typing its KBs or MBs in the search text box. Or, you can search by various size ranges.

Kind: Search for files of a specific type as selected from the drop-down list that appears when you click the Kind option.

Type: Searches based on certain file types by extension, such as .pdf, .jpg, or .docx.

Name: Searches by filename. You can enter all or part of the filename in the search text box after the Name filter.

When you don't know all of a filename, you can use the asterisk (*) to stand for one or more wildcard characters in the filename and a question mark (?) to stand for individual wildcard characters.

Length: Search for an audio or video file by its relative length. You can enter the exact length or select one of the Length options that appear in the drop-down list.

Tags: This filter lets you search for a file by the tags assigned to it. Enter one or more tags after the Tags filter in the Search text box.

Authors: Search for file by a particular author. Enter an author name after the Authors filter in the Search text box or select the name from the drop-down list that appears. (This filter is called Artists when searching audio files.)

You can chose one or more of the search filters when looking for a file, but keep in mind that all the conditions you specify with the Date Modified, Size, Kind, Type, Name, Tags, and Authors search filters are inclusive, which means that all their conditions must be met in order to be returned to your Search Results Window.

Also check these links:

“Improve Windows searches using the Index: frequently asked questions” http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/Improve-Windows-searches-using-the-index-frequently-asked-questions

“Change Advanced indexing option”

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/Change-advanced-indexing-options

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/desktopsearch/technicalresources/advquery.mspx

Hope this helps!

Thanks & Regards,

Supreeth - Microsoft Support.

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