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How to find a file in Windows
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Wednesday February 11, 2009
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Wednesday February 11, 2009
Have a document you wrote but you don't know where you saved it? Looking for a particular file, but you don't recall the name? Trying to find a report you created about a month ago but don't know where that's at either? Not a problem because Windows can help you find things.
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- Click Start, then click on Search.
- Select Files and Folders.
- If you remember part of the file name you can type that into the first pane. Windows will search based on that criteria and pull up a list of all files that have the characters you indicated.
- If you remember what you wrote about you can enter text in the second pane. For example, if you wrote an article on swimming you can enter that and Windows will pull up every document that contains that word.
- You can specify where Windows should look, like a particular hard drive, or a particular set of folders.
- You can also give Windows an idea when the document was written. In the past week the past month, and so on.
- If you wish you can give Windows and exact span of dates, like January 1 to January 21. A caution here is that if you're off by even one day Windows won't find the file.
- You can have Windows go by file size if that's a parameter you remember. This is especially helpful when searching for larger files like a video or audio file.
- You can also use advanced options like searching in subfolders.
- Select Files and Folders.
- If you remember part of the file name you can type that into the first pane. Windows will search based on that criteria and pull up a list of all files that have the characters you indicated.
- If you remember what you wrote about you can enter text in the second pane. For example, if you wrote an article on swimming you can enter that and Windows will pull up every document that contains that word.
- You can specify where Windows should look, like a particular hard drive, or a particular set of folders.
- You can also give Windows an idea when the document was written. In the past week the past month, and so on.
- If you wish you can give Windows and exact span of dates, like January 1 to January 21. A caution here is that if you're off by even one day Windows won't find the file.
- You can have Windows go by file size if that's a parameter you remember. This is especially helpful when searching for larger files like a video or audio file.
- You can also use advanced options like searching in subfolders.
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