Select the program when it displays in search results. Click on the 'Search libraries' field, then type the name of the program youre searching for. This will open a new session of File Explorer. Click on the 'Folder' icon displayed in the taskbar. I usually install 'Search Everything' from . Press the WIN + D keys at the same time to access the Windows 8 desktop. Options like 'Last week' and 'yesterday'.Įvery version of windows explorer gets worse and worse at searching. Right-click on the heading of any column, and select Details. On the second server, when I click in the search box, it has buttons I can click, one is 'Date Modified' but they only have predefined As a result, the search window will show you all files with this extension type on this computer. Tells me it did not bring back all results because there are too many and the results window is too awkward to navigate. On one of them, I can't seem to get any advanced search options until I type at least one character in the name of the file I am searching for (but I want to search all files). Is this possible without 3rd party software? I want to see if there is anything unusual.

I just want to see all the files that have been modified on my Windows Server 2008 since December 1, 2010.

Windows 8 find files by date