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filename extension .search-ms.) Windows proposes stashing it in

your Saved Searches folder, inside your personal folder, but you
can choose any location you like—including the desktop.

Whenever you click the saved search, you get an instantaneous
update of the search you originally set up.

The idea is to save you time when you regularly have to set up the
same search; for example, maybe every week you have to round up
all the documents authored by you that pertain to the Higgins

proposal and save them to a flash drive. A search folder can do the
rounding-up part with a single click. These items’ real locations
may be all over the map, scattered in folders throughout your PC.

But through the magic of the saved search, they appear as though
they’re all in one neat window.

Note

Unfortunately, there’s no easy way to edit a search folder. If you decide your original search
criteria need a little fine-tuning, the simplest procedure is to set up a new search—correctly this
time—and save it with the same name as the first one; accept Windows’ offer to replace the old
one with the new.

Incidentally: Search filters work by hiding all the icons that don’t match. So
don’t be alarmed if you click Size and then Small—and most of the files in
your window suddenly disappear. Windows is doing what it thinks you
wanted—showing you only the small files—in real time, as you adjust the

filters.

At any time, you can bring all the files back into view by clicking the at
the right end of the search box.

Limit by Size, Date, Rating, Tag, Author…

Suppose you’re looking for a file called Big Deals.doc. But when you type
big into the search box, you wind up wading through hundreds of files that

contain the word “big.”