windows 7 Selecting Windows Explorer F3 Search options?

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After highlighting one of my hard drives in Windows Explorer, when I then do an F3 Search, the results I get are often very confusing (many of the reported files contain the sought ASCII string in neither the file name nor the file contents).

 

Is there a way of controlling/telling the Search tool whether I want it to

 

a) search for matches in file names only?

b) search for matches in file contents only?

c) search for matches in either file names or file contents?

 

This is particularly vexing when I'm looking for a specific file including a file extension. For example, an F3 Search for "hal.dll" yields a slew of files, not merely the one and only "hal.dll" file I seek. It's as though F3 Search treats the 'dot' separating

file name from file extension as a logical-OR operator.

 

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