File Explorer search Current folder option doesn't work

Anonymous
2020-04-21T13:54:00+00:00

Good morning,

I am having a problem with my Windows 10 file explorer searches.  When I search for an item, it brings back results in for the current folder and all subfolders as it should.  When I click on "Current folder" in the search tools, however, it does nothing.  I still see all results from all subfolders.  

I believe this problem started after installing NVIDIA GeForce Experience and the latest NVIDIA driver.  I tried to do a system restore, but it seems I dont have any restore points.  That is another problem I will have to fix.  

Any help you could give me would be greatly appreciated.

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  1. Anonymous
    2021-04-10T11:02:55+00:00

    amazing, that did the trick, this should be posted on top as it's the solution.  Thanks Matthew!

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-03-25T10:17:00+00:00

    A basic feature every OS has it working since their beta versions... MS can't solve it in a freaking whole YEAR.

    This is beyond pathetic.

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-01-26T21:02:07+00:00

    Thanks Tokarii93,

    This ridiculous tweak you describe does the job. I still don't know why MS cannot solve the problem in a proper manner. For me it suddenly occured after my last big update last summer - see my other posts. I didnt' have it before. Back before then I could still select first. I (sort of) accepted that even this official forum wcouldn't resolve it and lived with until the lastest update, 20H2 19042.746, hoping that that would fix it. As it didn't I returned and found your tweak.

    Super! Thanks again.

    Lets see if MS fixes it so that the search tab becomes available with the two options actually functioning again, before you search.

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-01-15T17:49:29+00:00

    See my post on about page 4 where I describe making a button that you can click before entering the search criteria, which will force the search to ignore subfolders.

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  5. Anonymous
    2021-01-15T04:03:57+00:00

    Thank you MatthewSibley, workaround is OK, would be nice if it was fixed

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