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How to find a file on a computer

Which of us friends did not get into this situation. You sat down by the Saturday evening for a computer or laptop and noticed that the desktop is very lit up with labels, folders, text documents, video and audio files, respectively, you decided to bring order here. And right, this is your desktop in the end.

We started with program labels, looked at what unnecessary and deleted them together with the old programs. Different files on the desktop were sorted by folders, well, and then climbed on the Internet in search of any information (and whether the films were swing to me, I haven't shook for a long time), and after some time it was naturally found this information in the form of certain files Downloaded to your computer. Then all the files were again sorted by the desired folders, and some were forgotten on the desktop and with a calm conscience lay down to sleep, the evening did not go in vain.

It was morning, you turned on the computer, and naturally wanted to see what you were pumped up with sleepy eyes yesterday and then in the process of viewing, noticed that there is no very necessary file on the desktop, and you worked over it all week. Whether you copied it to the folder, when yesterday they were injected, or removed at all. Open the basket, and there is no you need. We looked at the folders and did not find too. On the back, unpleasant goosebumps ran. Where they just did not look for, and on disk D: and in the "Downloads" folder, and "My Documents", but find file on computer You can not. That's then friends you set the eternal question "What to do?"

First you need to calm down. Nowhere, your file is most likely not to go and no hackers from your computer were stolen (it hurts he needed). All you need is just correctly use the search for files on your computer.

First of all, open the basket and carefully look at its contents, if there is no you need there, it means that we continue to search in other places.

• Note: If our article does not help you find the missing file, use a special program to search for files on a computer called.

How to find a file on a computer by his name

Secondly, you will probably remember the name of the file, and you can simply enter it in the "Search" field of the window "This computer", press ENTER, the file search will be searched on all the space of the hard disk and the file will certainly be found. For example, one of my acquaintance lost a new text file called "Letters". We found this file in this way, entered the word writing in the search field and pressed the ENTER, the result did not slow down to wait. If your file consists of several words, but you only remember one word, enter this word in the search field, for sure your missing file will still be found.

How to find a file on a computer by expansion

Search the missing file may look a little more complicated if you do not remember the name of the file. But then you probably know its working extension. What it is? File expansion are invented by programmers to determine the type of files. That is, each file belongs to a specific program, and thanks to the Windows file extension understands which program can work with this file. The extension is always separated from the name of the file by a point, for example, take the file VirtualDub.zip, as you see the name of the VirtualDub file, and its extension .Zip says that this is an archive file and work with it. WinRAR archivers or 7- Zip.

In other words, if you have a text file, which you were printed in the Microsoft Office Word program, then extension from your missing file.docx. If you have disappeared a photo or picture, then the extension will certainly be.jpg. If a movie disappeared, the extension may well be.AVI, FLV or MKV.

What if you do not remember the extension of the missing file?

Surely you have more similar files on your computer, you just need to see the extension from these files. By default, Windows 7 and Windows 8 file extensions are hidden and you will not see them. To see the extensions of the files go to the "Computer" window and select "View" - "Parameters" - "Change folder and search options"

- "View" Remove the checkbox from the item "Hide extensions for registered file types", click Apply and OK.

Please note that many files on your computer have been added after the extension name.

If you learned the extension of your missing file (for example, Zip), we enter it in the "Search" field and click Enter. As we see our file VirtualDub.zip was found

For example, we lost a movie with an avi extension. In the search results there will be all movies on your hard disk, you will only have to view the list and select the lost video file.

How to find a file on a computer by its volume

Many experienced users may notice that video files have many extensions and how then to look for?
Once my friend asked me to find the missing movie. By paying attention to the fact that all other films on the computer of my friend in format.avi, I tried to find a file by expansion, but it was not there, the file was not, then I decided to find a file by its volume. All video files of my friend occupied an approximate volume of 1.45 GB, I concluded that the missing film takes the same volume. It remains only to enter the search for a non-slip team.
System.Size:\u003e 1000MB, it means - search all files on a computer with a volume of more than 1GB.

The search issued twenty video files among which was a file completely without expansion, but the name had exactly the same as the missing film. Having assigned to him the extension.avi I solved the problem. As it turned out later, in this way, friends decided to swallow me and specially removed the expansion, thinking that I could not cope and I would not find the missing file.

How to find a hidden file on the computer

Sometimes, as a result of a system failure or viral activity, the operating system can assign a "hidden" attribute and if the item "Show hidden files and folders" item is noted in the system settings, you will not see their files and do not find them even through the "search", Although nothing happens to them at this time.
In order for hidden files to be visible in the operating system, we go to the "Computer" window and select "View" - "Parameters" - "Change folder and search options"

- "View", then celebrate the item "Show hidden files and folders", apply and approx.

It is possible that now your missing file appeared on the desktop. Or you can find it through the search function by name or expansion, how to do you already know.

How to find a file on a computer on its content

For example, you lost a text file printed in any text program to work with text, such as Microsoft Office Word, OpenOffice or Notepad. I think you must remember at least part of its content. My computer has a file with such a content "How to find a file on a computer" Enter this text in the search field and click Enter, immediately the file contains this text.

How to find a file on a computer using the Total Commander program

This cool file manager will be able to find the file missing on your computer immediately to several signs: by name, expansion, according to the text contained.
Run Total Commander and select the search location, such as the entire disk C: further "commands" and "File Search"
If you want to look for files by name or extension, we enter them in the "Search Files" field. Next, click the "Start Search" button
If you want to look for files on the text contained in them, then enter the text that you remember in the field "with the text" and do not forget to put the tick and click "Start Search"