Vista - Searching for names with parenthesis in them

1. Quite wonderfully when I drag the JPG's out of my temp internet folder
into a permanent location it asks me how to handle the duplicates. I save
them and let Vista name them. They end up with (2).jpg at the end of the
name.

2. What I haven't figured out how to do is search for just those files. (2)
doesn't hack it because ( and ) have a special meaning. It gets any file
with 2 in it. "(2)" is somewhat better but it did have a couple of
apparently false positives.

What is the proper way to use parentheses as literal characters in a search?

Regards,
Al Christoph

In the search box, type in:
name: (2)

This will narrow the search down to filenames only (ones that contain "(2)"
in the name).

If you only enter "(2)" or even just "(", the results are a little weird.

"Al" <AlTheElder@Hotmail.Com> wrote in message
news:0128D445-613B-45BC-925E-84582343DCB2@microsoft.com...
> 1. Quite wonderfully when I drag the JPG's out of my temp internet folder
> into a permanent location it asks me how to handle the duplicates. I save
> them and let Vista name them. They end up with (2).jpg at the end of the
> name.
>
> 2. What I haven't figured out how to do is search for just those files.
> (2) doesn't hack it because ( and ) have a special meaning. It gets any
> file with 2 in it. "(2)" is somewhat better but it did have a couple of
> apparently false positives.
>
> What is the proper way to use parentheses as literal characters in a
> search?
>
> Regards,
> Al Christoph