You could compare it with having an ordered, alphabetical list of people’s phone numbers versus a randomly garbled collection of names and phone numbers. The second distinction to be made is that Windows keeps records in its index in a very structured way. It uses this idle time to do something useful behind the scenes and work on its index. The first is that Windows goes through your files during times when you’re not doing anything on your computer. There are two important distinctions here. Indexing means that Windows goes through all of your files one by one and makes notes of all the words they contain. This could very easily take a very long time (especially if you have a lot of files). When you are performing a search that wants to display results for all files on your computer that contain a certain word, Windows would have to go through all your files, open them one by one, look inside for your search string and list the ones that are a match for your search. In order to be able to use the Windows search file contents capabilities, you must know about something called “Indexing”. If those settings aren’t set up correctly, it might look like the search file contents in Windows 10 does not work.
But you might have to change a few Windows options for it to work properly. It turns out that you can have Windows search within files indeed. This can be particularly useful for example if you need to search html files for text or search in pdf documents, Word documents, in fact any type of document you can think of that contain specific words. In other words, you want your search to look inside your files for certain keywords, not only look at the filenames.
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