Efficient file search in Windows systems

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People in the day-to-day Office applications, unavoidable with a variety of documents to deal with, the most commonly used is the word and WPS files. Then, over time, you may face a number of file formats and thousands of files, when you need to find a specific document, you will have a headache, so many files, how to find AH. Don't worry, this article will show you how to quickly find the files you need so that you can save time and improve your productivity.

Search in Windows9x

Take Windows98 as an example, open Explorer, and then execute the tools → find → files or folders command, and in the Name column of the dialog box, enter the name of the document you are preparing to query. Then, in the Search list, select the letter you want to query. You can also select "My Computer" for all searches and queries.

Search in Windows2000/xp

Take the Windows XP system as an example, click the "start → search" button, pop-up Search Wizard, where you can select the options you want to search (Figure 1), we select "All Files and folders", in the pop-up dialog box, we can make detailed file search settings, such as file name, document containing words, File path, click the "More Advanced options" button, we can also make the difference between the case and the setting, when finished, click the "Search" button, a while, you can see the search results in the right display box.

Figure 1 Search options Hidden file search

By default, Windows XP does not search for hidden files and folders. Even if you set the "Show All Files and folders" option, the solution is simple, so we'll just check "search for hidden files and folders" in the dialog box that pops up on the "More advanced Options" button mentioned above.

Tip: By modifying the registry, you can also open the "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer" branch and find the DWORD value in the right-hand window. Searchhidden ", set its value to" 1 ".

Compressed file search XP supports searching zip-formatted compressed files, but it's not a very cool alternative to compressed files in other formats. Archive Peek is a compact file search tool that can search for files in a variety of compressed packages, such as Zip, RAR, LZH, ARJ, PAK, ARC, TAR, SQZ, HYP, wad, and GRP, as well as search subfolders for files, support wildcards, search results printable, Save as HTML or text file.

Execute the Arepeek.exe program. Select the drive and folder you want to search, enter the name of the file to search for, and click Start Search.

Tip: Archive Peek cannot search the text contained in the file, and zipscan the software, and it supports zip, CAB, and jar multiple compression formats.

Search for Web pages, database files

I do not know whether you will need to search the work of binary, Web pages, databases and other types of files, if so, Super Text search software can meet your requirements, and it also supports the use of conditional expression lookup.

The main interface for the program to run is as shown in Figure 2, in the Search for column we can enter conditional expressions for accurate file lookups. In addition, the software provides for a period of time to find, as well as support for zip, cab and RAR compression pack lookups. Find files on a disc

After a lot of files, we will inevitably have a large number of files for CD-ROM backup, when more than the CD, we can imagine from hundreds of discs to find a file is how difficult, not a single CD-ROM search. Don't worry, the Where is it can do the job.

It is one of the best media classification software that can create a quick image of your floppy disk, hard disk, CD-ROM, and removable drive, and store the data in a taxonomy for future reference. Then, you can find, browse, locate, compare. Supports FAT, VFAT, FAT32, CDFS, and NTFS, and supports a variety of compressed file formats, such as Zip, RAR, ARJ, Cab, and so on. You can make a quick image of each of your CDs, and when you look up a file, look it up in the where is it, and when you do, you'll know which CD it is on, and it's much easier to find the files you need from your CD.

Find word and WPS files

Jinshan WPS Office and MS Office as the current domestic penetration rate of the top two Office software, to our work has brought great convenience. In the day-to-day office process, we often need to find some specific content of the file, but WPs and MS Office files are all formatted files, because the file encoding relationship, most documents can not use the operating system's own file search tool directly to search.

WPS File Finder is specifically for the search WPS format files, in the "Find content" input to find content, in the "Start directory" to select a good directory to find, click the "Search" button to quickly find the WPS you need to file.

Tip: The WPS file Finder can also find Word files, but Microsoft Word files search engines are designed to search for Word files more quickly and easily.

Bulk Search Files

The Digital Dragon batch file Finder can search the files in a list in batches, and then you can selectively copy these results to a specific folder. If you need to search for files in a batch in your daily office, the software will be of great use to you.