Windows search command line

To find all occurrences of the word Windows with an initial capital letter W in the file proposal. To search every file in the current directory and all subdirectories that contained the word Windows , regardless of the letter case, type:.

To find all occurrences of lines that begin with FOR and are preceded by zero or more spaces as in a computer program loop , and to display the line number where each occurrence is found, type:. To list the exact files that you want to search in a text file, use the search criteria in the file stringlist. To list every file containing the word computer within the current directory and all subdirectories, regardless of case, type:.

To list every file containing the word computer and any other words that begin with comp, such as compliment and compete , type:. Skip to main content. Privacy policy.

Windows Desktop Search 2. On later releases, use Windows Search instead. When calling WDS from the command line, no information about the user's actions or selection in the WDS window is returned to the calling application or webpage.

The default path that windowssearch. If not specified all stores will be searched. The great thing about finding these command line arguments is they can be used in other places such as the Command Prompt, in your own batch files and scripts, and also in desktop shortcuts. Using this method you can find out just about any shortcuts you want such as Computer Management, System Properties, Device Manager and almost anything else. Process Explorer can be used in Windows XP and above. Download Process Explorer.

You should now be able to see the commands and any arguments in use by the process in a new column. By this command line, can we make a shortcut on the desktop to safely remove the hardware?

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