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The search results menu has room for only a few items. Unless you own

one of those rare 60-inch Skyscraper Displays, there just isn’t room to show
you the whole list.

Instead, Windows displays the most likely matches for what you typed.
They appear in the results list grouped into categories like Apps, Settings,

Folders, Documents, Photos, Store (apps from the Windows app store), and
so on (Figure 3-2).

Such a short list of likely suspects means it’s easy to arrow-key your way to

the menu item you want to open. And Windows does a pretty good job at
guessing which two or three search results to show you in each category.

On the other hand, you might have 425 different documents containing the

word “syzygy,” and you’ll see only three of them in the search-results list.

Fortunately, Windows offers three different ways to filter the list of results,
so it shows only the results in a certain category:

Use the buttons above the list. The filtering buttons for All, Apps,
Documents, Email, and Web are immediately visible (Figure 3-2);

in the More menu, you can also get to Folders, Music, People,
Photos, Settings, and Videos. Click one of those buttons, and
boom: The list changes to show you only the search results in that

category. Kind of handy.

Note

Music, Photos, and Videos find files both online and on your PC, clearly labeled in
separate mini-lists.

Click the category heading within the results list. The results list

itself appears with headings (Apps, Settings, Folders, and so on).
You can click or tap one of those headings (also shown in Figure 3-

2) to view only those results.