How to utilize the Windows Find command

The Find command in the Windows Start menu is powerful and works well with the effect of being able to achieve more than enough. The following is the author's use of the "find" command three points of experience, this list below, perhaps you will be helpful.

One, multi-disk search

When you click start → find → files or folders, and then open the Find: All Files dialog box, in the Search box, you can select only one disk or folder if you choose only the scope that you want to search for.

In fact, when you click the search box, you can type the disk character you want to search directly in this box, and putting the semicolon in half-width on the disk. Separation, such as typing "C:;D:; I:" (the actual type is not quoted, the same as the same), you can simultaneously search for the files you need on multiple disks. To further narrow your search, you can also use the path in the search box.

Second, accurate file search

If the name of the file you are looking for contains a space key, then you can ask for a half-width "?" To help you find exactly what you're looking for. For example, in the Find: All Files dialog box, in the Name box, type Windows? XP Skill Feast ", the system will look for a file with a name that contains" Win-dows "and" XP Tricks ". If you type "windowsxp" in the Name box (there is a space bar after "Windows"), the system will look for files in the name or "Windows" or "XP Tricks".

From this, we can see in the Name box, "?" Is the logical and the relationship, the space is the logical or the relationship.

Third, delete all temporary files

Most applications generate temporary files when they are installed and run, and after normal exit, the general application can delete the temporary files, but some do not; if you exit abnormally, the temporary files will remain on the disk. These temporary files are scattered in the various folders of the disk, not only occupy space, but also reduce the disk read and write speed. We can skillfully use the "find" command to delete all temporary files at once.

First open the Find: All Files dialog box, in the Search box, select the disk you want to search for, because the temporary file is usually "tmp" extension, so we'll type "?" in the Name box. TMP "; Click the Find Now button to start the search; Click the Select All command on the Edit menu, select all the files found, and then click the Delete command on the File menu. Now, the free hard disk space is not a lot of it.