You’ve dumped all your personal files into My Documents
folder. Now there are over 200
files. How do you go about finding
anything?
First, have
good organizational skills.
That
means:
If you do those three things, you
may be able to find all your files simply by browsing through your folders in
Windows Explorer.
If it’s to late for good organization, or you simply have to
many files, you have another option, the Windows Find Utility. If you have some clue as to where your file
is, any of the letters that are in the file name, or any of the content that’s
in the document, you could possibly find it by using the Find Utility.
Click on your start button, select Find, then Files or
Folders. The Find dialog box will appear.
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br* will find all files and folders that start with the
letter “br”
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*aft will find all files and folders that end with “aft”
Select the drive or directory you
want to look in, check “include subfolders” and then click on Find Now.
* If you don’t know that name of the file, but you know you
last saved it two months ago, click on the Advanced Tab. Select the file type form the drop-down
list. For example, if you were looking
for a Word Document, you’d select Microsoft Word Document. Then click on the data tab. You can search within specific dates or you
can search just within a few months.
Enter ‘2’ in the during previous Month(s)” field. Click on the Name and Location tab, select
the location, and then click on Find Now.
Have a nice day and sleep all night no worry about lost
files!