I cannot search for some special characters like [!] on the File Explorer search bar in Windows 10.

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Hello!

Now here's something I don't have an answer for and couldn't find myself.

I have so many files with [!] in them and if I search for them on the search bar in File Explorer the result is all files in the folder. All of them, like I'm searching for anything.

Right now all I can do is go thru all files and find them.

Is there a way to search for [!] ?
 
Ah, the are regular white files.

If I input [!] on the search bar, the result is all files in the folder. I tried other standard letters and they worked fine in that same folder with the same files for which I'm searching with "[!]" in the filename. Does Windows 10 not deal with those symbols as standard letter?
 
That's not working.

There's a file called Genesis_[!].gen I'm looking for. I tried using *! on the search bar and again it only gave me all files. It's like using *.* in Dos.
 
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