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This is an article that guides you to search for files on your Windows computer by content instead of name. You can easily do this on a case-by-case basis using the directory’s search bar, or you can enable content search for every search.
Steps
Use the folder’s search bar
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Open the folder you want to search. To search for files in a certain folder by content, you need to open that folder first.
- For example, if you want to search for files in the “Documents” folder, open the ”Documents” folder.
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Click the search bar. This is the bar displayed in the upper right corner of the folder window.
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Enter the search command by content. Enter content: in the search bar. Anything you type after this command becomes the search keyword.
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Enter what you are looking for. Immediately after the “content:” command, you will enter the word or sentence to use to search for the contents of the file in the directory.
- For example, if you want to find a file that says “An elephant never forgets” in the body, type content:an elephant never forgets in the search bar.
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See results. Each file in the search results will be listed by content; That means you’ll see the file you’re looking for near the top of the window if the word or sentence has been entered correctly.
- You can narrow your search results by entering longer or more specific sentences in the file you are looking for.
Enable content search for all files
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Open Start 
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. Click the Windows icon in the lower left corner of the screen. The Start menu will appear immediately.
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Type change search options for files and fpders into Start. The search bar displays at the bottom of the Start window. This will find the option you need to change so that you can search files on your computer by content.
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Click Change search options for files and fpders . This option is near the top of the Start window.
- You’ll probably see a Files and fpders option here. If so, click this option.
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Check the box “Always search file names and contents”. This is the option in the “When searching non-indexed locations” section of the window.
- If this box is checked, Windows search for files by content is enabled.
- First you need to click the Search tab at the top of the window.
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Click Apply , then OK . Both options are at the bottom of the window. This will save your settings and close the window; From now on, Windows will search for files by name and content.
Enable content search for specific files
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Open Start 
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. Click the Windows icon in the lower left corner of the screen.
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Type change how windows searches . This content needs to be entered in the search bar at the bottom of the Start window.
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Click Change how Windows searches . This is the option near the top of the Start window. The Indexing Options window will appear on the screen.
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Click Advanced at the bottom of the window. Another window will appear on the screen.
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Click the File Types tab. You’ll see this option near the top of the window.
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Select the file type you like. Drag the list of file types near the top of the window until you find the type you need, then click the file type’s name to select it.
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Check the “Index Properties and File Contents” box. This is the option under the heading “How should this file be indexed?” (How should this file be listed?) near the bottom of the window.
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Click OK at the bottom of the window. This will save the changes and close the window. You can now search for the selected file type by name and content.
Advice
- After updating the listing options, you will have to wait a while before the search results show up as expected, because Windows has to rearrange the listing according to the contents of the new file. Restarting the computer will speed up the process.
- You may also need to add another folder to the list of locations listed from the Indexing Options window.
Warning
- Enabling file search by content will slow down your computer significantly. This is because the computer now has to search through each file instead of just scanning the name of the file.
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