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On Windows 7, the following query used in folder search boxes fails to filter the files in a folder that have a "!" exclamation mark in them.
filename:!
Is there any way of doing this search please? Thanks.
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To access it on your Windows 10 system: Type “character” in your search field and then select the Character Map app. You'll get a pop-up map showing a bunch of special characters for a specific font. You can change the font by clicking on the drop-down font menu at the top.
Type filename:*& to Explorer search field, this finds all files where the & character appears in the filename or file extension.
Those icons mean that the files need to be backed up. You can turn them off, if you want to.
Answer. The * (asterisk) is a wild card that takes the place of any number of letters. Example: You know a file starts with the letter H. So type H* in the search box.
In your specific example filename:"*!*" seems to work in Win7 (Not sure about Vista)
I'd still recommend using 3rd-party tools like Agent Ransack, BareGrep or Everything if you need to search for files with weird names or the content of files not indexed by Windows. (On Win9x/NT5 you can type Win+F *.dll Tab CreateThread Enter and you will find all DLLs on all local drives that contain the string "CreateThread", doing the same on NT6 is impossible AFAIK!)
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