Cool.

It took me about 4 tries to get this to work though. It's a little difficult to tell where there are and aren't spaces in the command.

Webran61

I was completely stymied by Vista's find. It seemed to find nothing.

Aa test, I created a file "C:\file.txt". Typed "file.txt" into the search box. And Vista couldn't locate it.

This single "feature" stopped me from buying the final product after the pre-release copy expired.

jeffk

@The How-To Geek:

Exactly what I intend to do when I use this in the future is use the drop-down menus. Just like I said in a previous article here, I prefer the touchpad way more than the keyboard. I know I'm alone on that.

Thanks for this.

Webran61

@Webran61: The only place you should need a space is between the "name:whatever" and the "modified:daterange" keywords, since they are separate search operators.

You can use spaces between the dates and dots, or not... should work either way. You can even have a space between "modified:" and the date range. You could also just use "modified:1/1/2008" without needing a date range.

Sometimes it's simpler to just use the advanced search and select the date from the drop-down =)

The How-To Geek

Jeff: Vista's search feature is more like Google's Desktop Search, where it indexes stuff on your hard drive so it can search faster. If you had checked "search for non-indexed files" or had left your computer idle for a few minutes so that the file would enter the index, it would have found it lickety-split.

Everyone: I recently found a great compendium of all the neat search operators Vista supports, which I found to be *incredibly* useful.

J. D. Harper (aka Blog Jones)

@Webran61: I'd bet most people prefer to use the mouse, it's only us crazy keyboard ninjas that prefer the keyboard method.

The How-To Geek

@J. D. Harper (aka Blog Jones): Also, the root of the C:\ drive is probably not being indexed by default, nor should it be.

The How-To Geek