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Always search files and contents

The idea is to search files and its contents via Windows Search. I have turned on Always search files and contents in Change folder and search options on Windows. Is it possible to search files and contents with python and win32api, while option is enabled in settings as shown above ?

Can anyone show me some examples if possible how to achieve this goal ? I do not want to search files with python and its modules to parse data from there, just want to use itself Windows to search files.

Thanks.

Harold James
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  • You could try to use [Notepad++](https://github.com/MattBDev/notepad-plus-plus/blob/master/README.md) to search file names and contents on Windows. For more details, Isuggest you could refer to the threads: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9093575/notepad-find-file-name https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12215896/searching-multiple-files-for-multiple-words/17874867 – Jeaninez - MSFT Nov 11 '21 at 07:30
  • [Windows Search](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/search/windows-search) has a [programming interface](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/search/-search-developers-guide-entry-page). – IInspectable Nov 11 '21 at 08:42

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