Gateway GT4015H manual Browsing for files and folders, Using advanced search options

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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

Help & Support

For more information about browsing for files and folders, click Start, then click Help and Support. Type the phrase files and folders in the Search box, then click the arrow.

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 usually will have to search through levels of folders to find the file or folder that you need. This is called browsing.

To browse for a file:

1Click Start, then click My Computer. The My Computer window opens.

2Double-click the drive or folder that you think contains the file or folder that you want to find. If you do not see the contents of a folder, click Show the contents of this drive or Show the contents of this folder.

3Continue double-clicking folders and their subfolders until you find the file or folder you want.

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