Do you every need to search in Explorer (your Windows Explorer, not the Internet one) for files of a specific size range?  A coworker showed this to me and I wanted to write it down so I don't forget it!

Search by Size: range

That will filter the results to all files within those ranges.  This even works on Server 2008 (I thought it was a Windows 7 only feature at first).

Search in Internet Explorer Favorites

You can also search through your internet bookmarks and favorites by the strange sequence of adding your favorites to the favorites for search.

Step 1

First navigate to your favorites folder in Explorer.  This should be the one under your username, not the one at the top of the Explorer window.

Select the Favorites item.  You will see your folders and bookmarks on the right side of the screen.

Step 2

Then you have to find the Favorites item that is usually at the very top on the left pane of Explorer.  DON'T CLICK IT.  Right Click and select Add current location to Favorites.  Then you will have a Favorites folder under the Favorites item.

That's it.  You can now search them quickly and easily from the Explorer window.

Search the Internet Bookmarks and Favorites

This next part is also a little non intuitive to me.  To search the internet bookmark favorites you have to select the Favorites icon, then choose Favorites again (for the internet ones) and type your search in the upper right corner of Explorer.

Name your bookmarks when adding them

You can add a favorite by pressing Alt-Z on the keyboard while on a site, or hit the Star icon (Internet Explorer 9) and then add to favorites.

I find this incredibly useful for finding my bookmarks later. I actually now take the time to give meaningful names to all my bookmarks so I can search on them later. No content from the page can be searched, just the title you put in the bookmark, and the web address.

You can also create folders for them as well.

Sync your bookmarks across machines

Did you know you can keep your bookmarks across multiple machines?

Using Windows Live Mesh you only have to select to Sync your Internet Explorer under Program Settings.

Windows Live Mesh is a free tool that allows you to also sync folders across machines as well.  If you haven't seen this tool you really need to!  I think it is way better than using a third party service like Drop Box.  I use it to sync One Note notebooks across all my machines.

Hope this helps someone, and now I won't forget it either.

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