I am not sure if I am missing something but how do you search a folder in Windows 7 without opening the folder? I have folders that have over 200,000 files and I don't want to watch Windows display all of these files when all I want to do is a simple search. In XP I could just right mouse click on a folder and select Search and the Search Companion would pop-up. I don't see this feature in Windows 7 Thanks Tim

Open the explorer and type the data you're looking for into the search box on the top rights ."A programmer is just a tool which converts caffeine into code" CLIP- Stellvertreter http://www.winvistaside.de/

You still have double click on the folder so it knows which one to search. I don't want to have to double click a folder to search it. I have hundreds of folders with thousands of files in each folder I only want to search one particular folder.

Single click the folder to select it, then type your search argument into the Search box and press Enter or click Search. I just tried it by selecting Documents and Settings (actually a Junction Point) and searched for *.doc. As far as I could tell it found all of them.Rich The only two things that are infinite in size are the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not completely sure about the universe. - Albert Einstein

Hi, Generally, Windows 7 search is fast , you do not need to search within a particular folder to save time when the folder is indexed. You have two ways to include the folder as indexed. 1. Copy the file to Library manually or perform the following steps: a. In the taskbar, click the Windows Explorer button . b. In the navigation pane (the left pane), navigate to the folder that you want to include and single-click it (don't double-click). c. In the toolbar (above the file list), click Include in library, and then click a library (for example, Documents). 2. You can also add the folder to the index without using libraries. To add an index location: a. Click to open Indexing Options. b. Click Modify. c. To add or remove a location, select or clear its check box in the Change selected locations list, and then click OK. If you don't see all locations on your computer in the list, click Show all locations. (If all locations are listed, Show all locations won't be available.) If you're prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation. If you want to include a folder but not all of its subfolders, click the folder, and then clear the check box next to any subfolder that you don't want to index. These folders will appear in the Exclude column of the Summary of selected locations list. After that, you can type the keywords in the search bar from windows Explore to find what you want as soon as you can. Regards,Magon Liu - MSFT