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Exploring Vista’s Advanced Search

I used the file search function in Windows XP a lot, particularly to find groups of files. But the XP search syntax doesn’t work in Vista. Vista uses the Windows Desktop Search query syntax. Which means    “*.vbproj;*.csproj” becomes    “ext:(*.vbproj OR *.csproj)” Note that the boolean operator must

By Jeff Atwood ·
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