Hello, I'm new here. I've found FileSeek after switching from Windows XP to 7 (I imagine this is a common enough story?). I first ran into Locate32 but didn't find it fully reliable, then I found this. And it is only right that I begin by expressing appreciation for making such a useful tool available. It's great and I thank you.

I'd like to ask though, would it be possible to make regular expressions usable on filenames themselves, not just for file contents? I just had to perform a rather involved search through a gazillion of jpgs, and it would have been so much easier/automatic had I been able to use negative lookaround among other things.

Also, is there a help file of some sort anywhere?

In particular I'd like to learn:
- Is there a list anywhere of special characters currently usable in the file name search? I know * is a wildcard, | is the or-separator, what else is there? And how do you escape the wildcards?
- are there any hotkeys? Are they listed anywhere?
- is there a hotkey that initiates Fileseek from Windows, so you can press F3 and use that instead of Windows Search?

Thanks for the reply. And yes, I could do that, but I was hoping for being able to start a search in whatever directory I'm in (whereas if I do what you said, it starts with the path set to c:\), the same as using the integrated "search with fileseek" option on a folder. I'm just not a mouse person, I'm a keyboard person, so it'd be a minor improvement in convenience. No big deal.

Either way, a very useful program. Thanks again.