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How can I find all my video files in windows 8.1? I go into the windows 8.1 start screen and start typing "*.avi". It finds a small number of videos on my C drive. Search appears to only look on the system drive. It does not bother to search D or E where the files are actually located. Also, I don't know what file extensions I have on my machine....avi, .mov, .mp4, I can't name all the file extensions that exist for videos.

Ideally, I want:

  1. The ability to exclude directories from the search
  2. Find all videos of all types without specifying each file extension
    • I'm thinking common known file extensions. Not looking at binary data or anything like that.
  3. Search all drives
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Open up File Explorer and make sure your current directory is on This PC. Copy kind:=video in the search bar. This should bring up all the video formats. This should also search your entire PC including all drives, files and folders.

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You can also see which folders are indexed, by click Advanced options > Changed indexed locations.

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