We all have a huge collection of images on our computers nowadays. This has been made possible due to the selfie craze that has taken over the world in the past few years as well as smartphone manufacturers fitting in high quality cameras in their products that help capture an endless number of high resolution and close to life pictures.
This is the prime reason an average person is known to capture hundreds (or even more) images in a very short span of time, which grow exponentially at a very brisk pace. Once these images multiply quickly, it is quite difficult to find the right kind of images with ease. Sometimes, it may take days or even weeks if the user tries doing it the manual way. However, Windows by default provides an advanced feature, known as advanced query syntax, which makes it possible for the user to filter out the right type of images they’re looking for. This tutorial intends to guide the users on identifying the lowest resolution images on the PC with the help of advanced query syntax. The provided in the following lines works fine for all operating systems from Windows 7 (inclusive) onwards.
Solution: Use Advanced Query Syntax in Windows
Advanced query syntax can be easily deployed in Windows Explorer/ File Explorer, and it helps to filter out the relevant search result with extreme ease and exemplary accuracy. Some of the criterion that can be used are file type, image dimension, modified date along with various useful mathematical and Boolean operators. This tutorial uses the width and height variables along with file type to dig out the lowest resolution images in the Computer.
- Open up Windows Explorer/ File Explorer from the Start menu.
- Navigate to Pictures or the custom folder where the images are stored.
- Locate the search bar on the top-right of the page. It should look like as following.
- Use the following query syntax to initiate the process to filter out images. kind:photo width:<680 height:<390
- The result of the search will show up within moments on the screen.
Search result showing up - You can also opt to further filter out the results by adding up a part/ full filename of the image.
- Similarly, you can add up the filetype filter to further narrow down the results. You can even use up multiple filters at once to further refine the search query. As an example: kind:photo width:<680 height:<390 extension:png ImageName
Applying multiple filters
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