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So where’s the master list of these available criteria? It turns out they

correspond to the column headings at the top of an Explorer window in
Details view: Name, Date modified, Type, Size, and so on.

You’re not limited to just the terms you see now; you can use any term that
can be an Explorer-window heading. To see them all, right-click any of the

existing column headings in a window that’s set to Details view. From the
shortcut menu, choose More. There they are: 115 different criteria,
including Size, Rating, Album, Bit rate, Camera model, Date archived,

Language, Nickname, and so on. Here’s where you learn that, for example,
to find all your Ohio address-book friends, you’d search for home state or

province: OH.

Dude, if you can’t find what you’re looking for now, it probably doesn’t
exist.

Special Search Codes

Certain shortcuts in the File Explorer search boxes can give your queries
more power. For example:

Document types. You can type document to find all text,
spreadsheet, and Power Point files. You can also type a filename
extension—.mp3 or .doc or .jpg, for example—to round up all files

of a certain file type.

Tags, authors. This is payoff time for applying tags or author

names to your files (“Tags, Metadata, and Properties”). In a search
box, you can type, or start to type, Gruber Project (or any other tag

you’ve assigned), and you get an instantaneous list of everything
that’s relevant to that tag. Or you can type Mom or Casey or any
other author’s name to see all the documents that person created.

Utility apps. Windows comes with a bunch of geekhead programs
that aren’t listed in the Start menu and have no icons—advanced
technical tools like RegEdit (the Registry Editor), Command