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While searching for Windows.h, I discovered some rather annoying search behaviour on Windows 10. Rather than being presented with a single result of Windows.h, I was presented with an entire laundry list of files with "Windows" in them and "h" in them, which is not what I wanted. Searching for "Windows.h" did not help.
How can I search for Windows.h and receive only files with exactly that name?
xaav
Posted 2017-01-01T23:54:06.163
Reputation: 415
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If you want to match only filenames and not file contents, you can qualify the search with name: like:
name:Windows.h
If you want an exact filename match, you can qualify the search with name:= like:
name:=Windows.h
Stephen Rauch
Posted 2017-01-01T23:54:06.163
Reputation: 2 455
2Note that the term name is translated to the system language. You can figure out your language's term by changing the view to "detailed list", and check the name of the column for file name. Example in Swedish, it says "Namn", so you type namn:=. – Liggliluff – 2019-06-14T09:42:13.970
This works with other explorer items as well, I just found I could use extension:=.h to find all .h files regardless of name. – PeterJ – 2019-11-08T05:12:38.613
Have you considered that your doesn't have a file named Windows.h that's typically only on a pc with the appropriate SDK installed – Ramhound – 2017-01-02T00:01:08.413
5I have attached a picture that shows that Windows.h is present, but I do not want to see all of the other results. – xaav – 2017-01-02T00:18:00.967