eMachines H3120 manual Browsing for files and folders, Using advanced search options

CHAPTER 4: Using Windows XP www.emachines.com

Help and Support

For more information about the Windows desktop, click Start, then click Help and Support. Type the keyword searching in the Search box, then click the arrow.

3Click Search. When the search is completed, Windows lists the files and folders whose names contain the text that you searched for.

4Open a file, folder, or program by double-clicking the name in the list.

Using advanced search options

Search can find files meeting more criteria than file name. You can narrow your search by selecting the search options that you want. You can search by the:

■Date the file was created or modified.

■Size of the file.

■Type of file, such as a program or a text document.

Browsing for files and folders

A file or folder that you need is rarely right on top of your Windows desktop. It is usually on a drive inside a folder that may be inside yet another folder, and so on.

Windows drives, folders, and files are organized in the same way as a real file cabinet in that they may have many levels (usually many more levels than a file cabinet, in fact). So you will usually have to search through levels of folders to find the file or folder that you need. This is called browsing.

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