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find binary files in windows

Is there any way to search for executable files in windows when it has been renamed? Say a .exe file has been renamed to a .txt or a .jpeg extension.

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I would just make a search using a specific enough portion within the targetted file (which is apparently known in that case) ; it might be very slow, depending on the amount of data to process, but theoretically no more than any solution which would specifically recognize EXE files according to their content. It may not work with Windows Explorer though, because searching inside files is possible only for a limited range of extensions (for example, I tried to locate a specific portion of dialogue in SRT subtitle files but couldn't find a match, yet there was indeed a file containing the relevant portion).