Advanced queries for Windows Desktop Search

Are you a Windows Desktop Search user?  If so then you may be interested in learning the advanced queries that you can use to search for information on your computer.  This list contains all the various query terms and operators you can use in a search query.

The following tables describe the syntax to use with Windows Desktop Search, as well as the properties that can be queried for each category of file displayed in the Desktop Search results window.

You can restrict your query to specific locations, specific file types or properties within those types, or specific “file kinds.” File kinds refer to the categories displayed at the top of the Windows Desktop Search results window.

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