How to search for files only (excluding directories) in Windows 8

Question

How do I search for files only?

I need to display all the files *.* but without directories and subdirectories.

Of course I can just type *.* and sort it in a desired way, so it will display all data I need, but there are thousands of directories and it take "ages" to sort.

So how do I do this?

Answer 1

You can use the System.Kind: advanced tag and to search for files only add the negation flag <> (which means not equal).

In the Windows Search bar, enter: *.* System.Kind:<>folder and this will exclude the results that are of the folder type from the search.

If you're on the command line: dir *.* /a-d will exclude directories in your search results.

These will still search recursively if specified (as is the default with Windows Search but you must specify the /s flag on the command line) but the results will not show any directories or sub-directories matching your search criteria.

Hope that can help.