Patent ID: 7630975

Claim:
A computer storage medium storing computer-executable instructions for performing a method of filtering search results to hide advanced files, the method comprising: receiving, at a computing device, a textual input as a search criteria; determining that each of a plurality of files have a file name that partially matches the textual input, wherein the file name partially matches the textual input when the file name has one or more characters in addition to the textual input; determining that a subset of the plurality of files are advanced files, wherein a file is an advanced file if the file has one of a plurality of designated file extensions and is located in a particular file location, and wherein the designated file extensions indicate a system file; displaying search results that include representations of files in the plurality of files while suppressing display of the advanced files, thereby preventing representations of advanced files from being displayed as part of the search results; determining that the textual input exactly matches the file name for at least one advanced file; and displaying a representation of the at least one advanced file.