After entering the “ Folder Options”, choose the option “ Search” > Tick the option “ Always search file names and contents (this might take several minutes)” > Click “ OK” to finish.ģ. Open the File Explorer > Click the button “ file” which is in the top left corner > Select “ Change folder and search options”.Ģ.
Then type the text content that you want to seek on the keyboard.ġ. Click the Start Menu ( ) which is in the lower-left corner of desktop again and also don't click on any tile or icon.ĥ. If one uses the Everything and Agent Ransack (or File Locator Pro) combination, one has all the file searching capability that one needs. Switch to the button “ Advanced” > Choose “ File Types” > Click “ Index Properties and File Contents” > Tap “ OK” and then there will appear a “ Rebuild Index” dialog which need to be clicked “ OK” again to finish.Ĥ. One needs BOTH of them: One to search just for files/folders, and the other to search for text within files. Open the “ Indexing Options” and click the button “ Modify” > Tick all the selected locations > Click “ OK” to finish.ģ. Then type “ Indexing Options” on the keyboard.Ģ. Click the Start Menu ( ) which is in the lower-left corner of desktop and don't click on any tile or icon.
To open this window manually, select Other Windows from the View menu and choose Find Results 2.1. This window opens automatically to display your search results. As you can guess, the bigger the files, the longer it takes to find all matches.
Click on start searching It takes some time for the software to go through the files and find the text you want to find. When selected, the results of the current search will replace the content of the Find Results 2 window. Then, enter the text you want to search in these files, you need to enter one search per line. To open this window manually, select Other Windows from the View menu and then select Find Results 1. When selected, the results of the current search replaces the content of the Find Results 1 window. The following options under List results in can be selected or cleared: You can expand or collapse the Result options section. Select any item in the list to enter a preconfigured search string that will find files of those particular types. If this field is blank, all of the files in the Look in directories will be searched. This list indicates the types of files to search through in the Look in directories. For a list of these notations, see Using regular expressions in Visual Studio. If this check box is selected, you can use special notations to define patterns of text to match in the Find what or Replace with text boxes. When selected, the Find Results windows will only return whole word matches. When selected, a Find Results search will be case-sensitive You can select or clear the following option(s): You can expand or collapse the Find options section. Specifies that subfolders of the Look in folder will be searched. Use this option to append the results from the current search to previous search results.
You can also can exclude folders and files by prefixing any path or file type with an exclamation mark ( !). You can search for multiple file types by separating them with a semicolon ( ). The File types option indicates the types of files to search through in the Look in directories.
The option you choose from the Look in drop-down list determines whether Find in Files searches the entire workspace, the entire solution, the current project, the current directory, all open documents, or the current document. The Expression Builder button appears next to the Search box only if you've selected the Use regular expressions checkbox.