You know you put that phone number in some file on Monday, but you’re drawing a blank as you gaze at your Vista desktop. The How-To Geek offers a solution for those who haven’t explored Windows Vista enough to learn the syntax of the Start menu’s search box. The syntax for finding an Excel spreadsheet, for example, within a range of dates is:
name:xls modified:2/1/2008..2/20/2008The Geek has, as always, way more information on this technique and a mouse-powered one as well, including the syntax for finding files based on date created or just “date.” Got any more Vista-specific search tips for your fellow Lifehacker readers? Feel free to drop them off in the comments.
David Underhill
Tuesday, August 26, 2008 at 3:08 PMThanks, this is great information! Now I can actually figure out what files I modified in the past week :).