Make sure the "Windows C " drive is selected, and click in the search field in the upper right corner of the window, then click the "Size" link. The search will take some time and show a green progress bar in the address field since it is searching the entire C: drive. Rate this Article:. Documentation Category:. Top Five Articles Common Windows file extensions. Searching for Large Files in Windows. Determining your Windows Username.
Useful Keyboard Shortcuts. There is no search tab in my Windows 10 file explorer. Did MS remove this feature, or does some setting need to be changed? Next of Windows. Microsoft Announces Windows July 15, Search files by size in File Explorer on Windows 10 Because of the ribbon introduced in Windows 10, there are a number of new options added in Search ribbon when the Search box in File Explorer is selected.
Click on the Search box or simply press the F3 key, the Search ribbon shows up like below: Click the Size option in Refine section and a number of pre-defined search options show up, allowing you to quickly filter out the file list by the selected search option. Search files by size in Windows Explorer on Windows 7 Since Windows 7 only has the search box in Windows Explorer, you can simply use the same size filter trick explained earlier to archive the same thing.
Cancel Submit. Even the search capabilities of XP are horrible and unfortunately it has been carried over in Vista and W7. One of the better solutions I have found for your problem and which also works in Vista and W7 is comething called Agent Ransack.
I have used it for 2 years and it does exactly what MS removed when XP came out. I posted the following about this in the W7 forums with any useful reply. Hope that will help you out. From my Win7 forum post. I am running the RC version of Windows 7 and have unfortunately found no solution to the problems which started in XP and apparently have made their way into W7, at least I have not been able to find it. For some, as yet unexplained reason the search functionality in XP was arbitrarily limited to include only known document types such as doc, xls, html etc.
There was a convoluted "solution" posted on MS's website to circumvent this major issue but even it did not work as advertised. Luckily there were some people annoyed enough by this hi-handed change who took it upon themselves to develop something to do just that. FindinFiles and Agent Ransack come to mind.
Do people constantly have to develop new mousetraps for every MS OS because MS figures we do not deserve these features? I develop software and if I want to look for text inside files in a directory or on an entire hard drive, regardless of file extension, then that should be MY prerogative and I should be able to do so. Please give us that functionality back in W7. How satisfied are you with this reply?
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