On Sat, 22 Dec 2012 16:55:58 -0500, 98 Guy wrote:

wrote:

Is there a better file search tool than the one that comes with
Win98?

The file-find ability that Windows 9x/ME has is far superior to any that
came with any windows-NT based version (2k, XP, Vista, 7, etc).

I want one that will search by the file extension.
For example, I want to find a file containing the word "beatles"
and want only the .MP3 files.

In the built in "finder", when I go to "Advanced",

You will not accomplish what you want by going to the Advanced tab.

The way to perform your search is to enter this into the "Named" field
under the "Name & Location" tab:

*beatles*.mp3

That will find any file that ends in .mp3 that has "beatles" anywhere in
the file-prefix.

If you believe that the text-fragment "beatles" actually appears
somewhere in an mp3 file, then to search for any such file you put this
into the "Named" field:

*.mp3

And you put this into the "Containing text" field:

beatles

I'm not sure if mp3 files contain text (such as artist) in such a way
that it would be visible as plain text, but there's no harm in trying to
look and see if that search gives you what you want.

Ok, now we're getting somewhere. That works great. I was not aware of
putting the file-prefix in stars. I only knew to use the old dos *.mp3
command. And if I search for ALL EXTENSIONS with a certain filename I
might get thousands of unrelated file types. For example, I was looking
for REM (the band REM). I got words that contained REM such as REMind,
REMington, REMember, and so on....

Thanks