How to Search and Get Only Video Files in File Explorer on Windows 11/10

Some users browse through every folder to search for movies, which is hectic, but now the good news is that you can just search for video files and it will list them in the search results of File Explorer on Windows systems. Not only can you search for video files, but you can also search for video files with file names or file formats.

If you are also thinking about what to do, don’t worry! We explain it in short steps in this article so that users can easily retrieve only video files.

How to Search and Get Only Video Files in Windows 11 File Explorer

Users can search for video files on Windows systems in 3 ways. Users can search for video files only, which retrieves all files of type video or using file name or file format. Let’s see how to search and get files one by one using the methods shown below.

How to search and list all video files in Windows 11

Step 1: Press the Windows E key on your keyboard simultaneously, Open##File Explorer on the system.

Step 2: Once File Explorer opens, go to the folder where you want to search for video files, or just click

This PC on the lower left panel to search your system All video files.

Step 3: Once inside the folder or This PC, type

kind:video in the search bar in the upper right corner of the folder and press Enter key or click the right arrow blue button, as shown below.

Step 4: It may take a while to retrieve all the video files stored on your system and list them under the search results as shown below.

Step 5: So be patient. After you get all the video files, you can search for the files you want and enjoy the videos!

How to search and list video files using filename in Windows 11

Step 1:

Open File Explorer(press simultaneously Windows E key) and open the folder where you need to search for the file.

Step 2: Then you need to type the following line in the search bar so it appears at the right end of the window and

press the Enter key as shown below.

文件名种类：视频

Note- In the above line you need to replace "filename" with the name you are searching for. For example, the title of a movie called Tarzan. So you need to enter Tarzan kind:video.

Step 3: This will get all the video files whose file names contain the word you searched for.

Step 4: Once you have the files you need, close the folder if needed.

How to search and list video files using file formats in Windows 11

Step 1: Go to

File Exploreror open the file you want to search for video files folder.

Step 2: Then type the following line in the search bar and press

Enter key.

分机：.文件格式

Note: You must replace the file format with MOV, MP4, WMV, etc., these are some examples of video type formats.

Step 3: This will get all the video files (file formats like MOV, MP4, WMV, etc.) with the extension you provided.

Additional Information - You can also combine these two methods and search for specific files using the file name and extension, as described below.

文件名分机：.fileformat

Note– You need to replace the file name with file name and the file format with mp4, MOV and other file formats.

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