Search for file names containing! (exclamation mark) on Windows

Question

In Windows 7, the following query used in folder search folders cannot filter files in a folder with "!" an exclamation mark in them.

filename:! 

Is there any way to do this search, please? Thanks.

Answer 1

In your specific example, filename:"*!*" Seems to work in Win7 (not sure about Vista)

I would recommend using third-party tools like Agent Ransack , BareGrep or Everything if you need to search for files with strange names or the contents of files that are not indexed by Windows. (In Win9x / NT5, you can enter Win + F *.dll Tab CreateThread Enter , and you will find all the DLLs on all local drives containing the string "CreateThread", doing the same thing on NT6 is impossible AFAIK!)