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QUICK FILE FIND IN A DIRECTORY

You know about the Windows Find utility, right? Two common ways of bringing it up are to click "Find" on the Start Menu (it's "Search" in WinME), or to click on the "Find" item on Explorer's Tools menu (in Windows 95.) Here's a way that is even more time-saving when you are already in the Windows Explorer: click once on the directory you want to search in (which could be your entire hard drive or even My Computer, if you want) and then hit the F3 function key. A "Find" window will pop up at once with the search area already set up the way you want it.