Find a text file containing a particular phrase.
In a folder on my data drive, I have hundreds of text (.txt) files I have created or otherwise accumulated over the past decade or so. A lot of times, I want to find a file containing particular phrases or other content (e.g. all files that contain the word "recursive"). I've tried temporarily copying the folder to the C:\ drive, which is indexed by Windows (including content), but searches always come up empty. I've tried software like Everything, Wizfile etc. No luck. An Internet search brings up pages and pages about Windows indexing service, but nothing relevant to my needs. Any suggestions on accomplishing this are welcome. Thanks.
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Sorting Folders and Files, but Not Separating Folders FROM Files?
Hello, I’m using Windows 11 and have a question about sorting folders and files. Is there any way, either with Windows File Manager or any third-party utility, to sort folders and files by name, but NOT separating folders and files from each other? For example, let’s say I have the following folders and files on my C drive. I want them sorted by name, but with the folders mixed in with the files. Books Movies Music Photos Booklist.doc Movies in Black and White.rtf Musiclist.doc Photolist.txt Is there any way to sort this list by name, so the folders won’t be separate, at the top of the list, like this: Booklist.doc Books Movies Movies in Black and White.rtf Music Musiclist.doc Photolist.txt Photos If there is a way to do this, what would be the best procedure? Thank you! J. DannielHyper-V "Enhanced Session Mode" inconsistency
Starting using Hyper-V in the summer of 2024. It worked wonderfully - no issues at all. Starting a couple of months ago (and I have no idea if it coincided with a Windows 11 update), Hyper-V has become very inconsistent and buggy when it comes to Enhanced Session Mode. One day it will work perfectly: I get prompted to select the size of the remote desktop window, and clipboard copy/paste between the host and VM works flawlessly. The next day it will completely fail: I don't get prompted for the window size, and copy/paste between the host and VM doesn't work. I've tried unchecking and re-checking both the "Allow Enhanced Session Mode" setting in the "Server" section as well as the "Use enhanced session mode" setting in the "User" section. I'm curious if anyone else has noticed recent inconsistency with enhanced session modes.
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Backup Nightmare
I have been fuming about this forever, but now its time for a rant!! I have HATED the Microsoft Win 11 "Backup" NAG, it NEVER shuts up, even though I always tell it to go away. I have a proper backup solution, so its extra annoying when I keep being nagged, for a pathetic attempt at backup (is it even a backup? or just a sync?) Anyway - as I say, I always say NO.. however, I have in the past said "continue", just to see what it doing.. and made sure ALL options are unticked (another very annoying thing is when you open, irrespective of last time making sure everything unticked, next time you open, they all ticked again... GGGRRRRrrr ) Anyway - recently I noticed when I went into settings, it said "partially backed up".... I thought WTH!!! whats happened there? So went to backup options and made sure all unticked... went into ondrive online to see if anything stored, didnt notice anything.. so was a mystery. Next day, I noticed OneDrive was on when I booted my machine (its disabled to start, so that was unexpected). SO exited.. Next day it again on at boot, and showing errors... I went in and noticed in the "Sync and Backup" section in the "Manage backup" a couple of the items were selected on... so unselected them and when prompted said "keep on my PC only" The errors (7) were all along the lines of you have items with same name already if you want keep them rename on PC and sysnc (I cant recall for sure... it poorly worded rubbish ). Having made selectins as detailed above.. I assumed I done.. I turned off OneDrive, disabled it from startup at boot again.. and thought I done. Today I noticed items in my "Pictures" folder had gone... could not find them online in OneDrive.. they just gone. I started up OneDrive, it still reported errors.. so went into OneDrive locally and it had 2 directories showing red x ... one of which was pictures/photos? I just deleted the 2 directories with red X and all errors in OneDrive disappeared.. so I shut down OneDrive Recovered the pictures from my REAL backup solution and came here to rant,. What the Actual hell are MS doing? its being totally arrogant to do what it does, its not transparent on what its actually doing and gives totally inadequate controls to the user. Comments?
