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Note

That’s right: Windows recognizes human terms like today, yesterday, this week, last
week, last month, this month, and last year.

size: >2gb finds all the big files on your PC.

rating: <*** finds documents to which you’ve given ratings of

three stars or fewer.

camera model: Sony A7 finds all the pictures you took with that
camera.

kind: email finds all the email messages.

That’s just one example of the power of kind. Here are some other

kinds you can look for: calendar, appointment, or meeting
(appointments in Outlook, iCal, or vCalendar files);
communication (email and attachments); contact or person (vCard

and Windows Contact files, Outlook contacts); doc or document
(text, Office, PDF, and web files); folder (folders, .zip files, .cab
files); link (shortcut files); music or song (audio files, Windows

Media playlists); pic or picture (graphics files like JPEG, PNG,
GIF, and BMP); program (programs); tv (shows recorded by
Windows Media Center); and video (movie files).

The folder: prefix limits the search to a certain folder or library.
(The starter words under:, in:, and path: work the same way.) So

folder: music confines the search to your Music library, and a
search for in: documents turtle finds all files in your Documents
library containing the word “turtle.”

Tip

You can combine multiple criteria searches, too. For example, if you’re pretty sure you had a
document called “Naked Mole-Rats” that you worked on yesterday, you could cut directly to it by
typing mole modified: yesterday or modified: yesterday mole. (The order doesn’t matter.)