In Windows Vista and later, users can save searches as a Search Folder which is generated by an XML file that stores the query in a form that can be used by the Windows search subsystem. This topic describes the file format (*.search-ms) and includes the following sections: Overview of Saved Searches <viewInfo> Element <viewInfo> Attributes <viewInfo> Child Elements <query> Element <query> Child E
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