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I see this almost every day and it drives me crazy. Someone is
looking for a file on their computer but they don't remember
where it is or what the filename is. They have a hard copy but
there's no filename printed on it.
Windows makes it so easy to find files on your computer that it's
a crime that most people don't know how to do it. Sometimes I
will just stand back and watch people look for a file on their
computer to see how they do it. At times I've seen three
people huddled around a computer giving their suggestions of
where to look.
Then I step forward and say, "Let me look. Oh, here it is." In a
minute or less, depending on the speed of your computer, you
should be able to find any file on your hard drive as long as you
know something of what's in the document.
Click on Start, Find, and then 'Files or Folders' to bring up the
'Find All Files' dialog box.
If you know the name of the file but don't remember which folder
it is in, type the name, or part of the name, in the 'Named'
field. If you don't know the name of the file but do know some
text contained within the file, type that text in the 'Containing
text' field. There are other options on the Date and Advanced
tab which you can experiment with at another time.
Make sure the location in the 'Look in' field contains the sub-
folders where the file you're looking for may be located (i.e.
you may select C: to search your whole hard drive).
Now click 'Find Now' and in a short time you will be given a list
of files matching your criteria.
Remember this tip because some day you're going to need it. How
would you like to recreate a 20 page document because you didn't
know how to find it on your computer?
share it with your friends and associates?
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