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# DID YOU KNOW : Advanced Search in Microsoft Explorer
- URL: https://kudithipudi.org/did-you-know-advanced-search-in-microsoft-explorer/
- Published: 2017-12-27T23:08:20.000Z
- Updated: 2017-12-27T23:08:20.000Z
- Description: I was trying to search for some files on my laptop today and wanted to filter the search for filed modified in the last few weeks....
- Author: admin
- Tags: DID YOU KNOW, Technology, Windows, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-08-23 02:32

I was trying to search for some files on my laptop today and wanted to filter the search for filed modified in the last few weeks. Like, show me all files that contain the word “American” and modified in the last 2 weeks. Doing this on a Linux machine would have been a simple filter using find. But this is Microsoft :).

Thanks to some Googling, I ran across something called “[Advanced Query Syntax](https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa965711%28v=vs.85%29.aspx?ref=kudithipudi.org)” that is a core part of Microsoft’ ecosystem (OS, Office etc).

So the same search ended up being

American datemodified:this month

There are a lot of cool ways you can filter your queries using the other keywords in AQS.