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Prompt (the command line), and so on. By far the quickest way to

open them is to type their names into the search box.

In this case, however, you must type the entire name—regedit, not
just rege. And you have to use the program’s actual, on-disk name
(regedit), not its human name (Registry Editor).

Quotes. If you type in more than one word, Search works just the
way Google does. That is, it finds things that contain both words

somewhere inside.

If you’re searching for a phrase where the words really belong
together, though, put quotes around them. For example, searching

for military intelligence rounds up documents that contain those
two words, but not necessarily side by side. Searching for
“military intelligence” finds documents that contain that exact

phrase. (Insert your own political joke here.)

Boolean searches. Windows also permits combination-search

terms like AND and OR, better known to geeks as Boolean
searches.

That is, you can round up a single list of files that match two terms
by typing, say, vacation AND kids. (That’s also how you’d find

documents co-authored by two specific people—you and a pal, for
example.)

Note

You can use parentheses instead of AND, if you like. That is, typing (vacation kids)
finds documents that contain both words, not necessarily together.

If you use OR, you can find icons that match either of two search
criteria. Typing jpeg OR mp3 will turn up photos and music files in

a single list.