How to search for files in Win8

With the habit of searching under Windows 7, the search speed becomes faster after upgrading to Win8. It can be said that Win8's search function is more powerful. In addition, the optimization of the touch is also very good. Not much nonsense, this article will mainly share with you how Win8 search files, take you to experience the powerful file search function of Win8, support for each time period and custom file search, use, look at the following.

First introduce the most commonly used time search function. The non-fixed natural date mentioned here refers to the interval of non-whole month, whole week and whole year, but needs to span several months. Week, a time interval of several years. Normally, Windows 8 is very convenient for fixed-time search, which can be done with just two mouse clicks.
Win8 powerful time-based search function

As shown in the figure, after selecting the search box in desktop mode, you can click on the built-in fixed interval under the “Search” tab, but if you want to search for a 2012/How to do this non-fixed interval between 10/15 and 2012/11/10 under Windows 8? The following are some of the personal experiences of the author, share them for your reference.

In the screenshot above, let's click on “Today” and then go back to the search box in desktop mode and position the mouse on the light blue field. A floating window will appear. Allows you to make more choices of dates.
Full-Day View File Search

As shown, “ Full-Day View”.

Then, click on the month on the floating window and a calendar view similar to the calendar will appear.
Win8 full-month view file search

As shown in the picture, "full-month view", pay attention to the two small points pointed by the arrow, this is the key.

The appearance of these two points is automatically completed by the system. We use manual input is invalid, then I manually change the date to 2012/10/15~2012/11/10 according to my expectations. I don't care about the week (belonging to my own long date).
Win8 powerful custom search

As shown in the figure, you can search for non-fixed natural days. The yellow color range is after 15th of October, and the green color range is 10th of November. previous.

Overall, the built-in search for Windows 8 is still very useful, and more predictive functional design for future touch platforms. More point-oriented (mouse), touch (finger) optimized interface design and benchmarks simplify the original cumbersome fixed natural time period search.