How can I get Microsoft's Search to properly search inside text based files that don't hav

I am working with another software vendors sample .java files (a couple hundred) and occasionally need to find one that demonstrates how to use their API. Their API set has over 10,000 objects and the documentation unfortunately is, more often than not, lacking details (i.e. a method takes "int arg1, int arg2" but really they are wanting some sort of enumerated object).

I have done both explicit searches (*.java) and open searches (*.*) to find files containing keywords but the Microsoft search does not find files that contain the words. If I manually search the files, I can see plenty of them that contain the words, but I don't really want to rely on a manual search when the OS has a search capability (just not working as expected).

Any thoughts on a default configuration that needs to happen? Does another option exist? I'm using Eclipse as my IDE and can search my project directory but these are sample files and I don't want to pull them all into my project just to do a search.

How can I get Microsoft's Search to properly search inside text based files that don't have a .txt extension?pacific theater

I'm not a big fan of Microsoft's search so I don't use it very often and I'm not an expert by any means. So these are just some random thoughts based on search parameters used by Google (and most other full-text search engines.) Google makes big use of the Boolean modifiers + (must include), - (must not include), | (pipe symbol, to specify or), and finally ~ (synonym). And specific phrases are enclosed in quotes.

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