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One-liner PowerShell command to search entire Windows registry for a keyword
$ErrorActionPreference = 'SilentlyContinue'
Get-ChildItem HKLM:,HKCU: -Recurse |
Get-ItemProperty |
Where-Object { $_.PSObject.Properties.Value -like "*MyKeyword*" } |
ForEach-Object {
$...
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Is there any way to get Windows to index ePub and MOBI files so that I can search them?
Zabkat have a bunch of IFilters for various ebook formats that they provide for free.
For EPUB: https://www.zabkat.com/blog/epub-ifilter-windows-search.htm
For MOBI + AZW:
https://www.zabkat.com/blog/...
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How can I search for a past clipboard item in Ditto based on the time it was placed in the clipboard (= saved in Ditto)?
There isn't a (documented) way of searching by date/time in Ditto, but there is a technical workaround to do what you are asking for. The key point to understand is that the Ditto.db is actually an ...
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How to list (search) files with a certain name
A different approach:
Go to search in all files (Ctrl + Alt + F)
Open "files to include" section, by clicking three dots in the right bottom of search bar
Type the file extension to "...
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Is there any way to search for phrase in multiple pdfs simultaneously
I am surprised pdfgrep (https://pdfgrep.org) has not been mentioned so far. It is open source, and available on Linux as well as macOS, and works very much like good old grep. You could recursively ...
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How do I search a page using a regular expression in Firefox?
If you're familiar with vi then one solution is to use the open-sourced Vimium extension which is available for both Firefox, Chrome and Edge. It allows vi-style navigation in common browsers.
The ...
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How to find out why is text not searchable in a PDF (and make it searchable)
One possible cause resulting in a non searchable or partially searchable PDF document may be a watermark overlapping the text and preventing the text underneath it from being searchable.
To make such ...
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