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Windows 11 File Explorer Search treating spaces as "or" instead of "and"...sort of.
I've recently been experiencing some baffling behavior when searching with Windows 11 File Explorer, and wanted to check whether there's an underlying setting or even a known bug causing it. Basicall...
The core of your problem is that Windows 11's File Explorer search has shifted from matching the beginning of a word to matching the whole word by default. This change occurred sometime around the transition to Windows 11.