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how do you search for something inside text files and RT in Win 8.1?

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BirdDad

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rich text files that is.
How do I search for a string in all the test type files on any hard drive? WinXP had it so you could search within files as well as search for files.
 
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Control Panel -> Indexing Options -> Advanced -> File Types -> Choose the file type you're interested in searching, switch from index properties only to index properties and contents.

Once the index gets re-built you should be able to search the contents of those file types.
 
Essence_of_War said:
Control Panel -> Indexing Options -> Advanced -> File Types -> Choose the file type you're interested in searching, switch from index properties only to index properties and contents.

Once the index gets re-built you should be able to search the contents of those file types.
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now how do I search(I must be doing it wrong because I used a known word that was in several of the txt files which if it was looking IN the files it should have shown up several times), I did my search from the seach bar in my D,e, and F drives it failed to find anything and that was with a known.
 
Are you sure the index was re-built and that for .txt files you selected "index properties and contents"? The index rebuild should take a bit of time.
 
The topic title was: how do you search for something inside text files

Everything searches for files and I do use it and shut indexing off.
 
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