On local drives or external media with a large amount of memory, it is often difficult to find a specific file or folder. In Windows operating systems, the user is offered several ways to search for folders and files.
Folder search
If you know the name of the folder you are looking for, then open the "Computer" library and left-click on the "Search: Computer" search line located in the upper right corner of the explorer window.
You can also activate the search bar by pressing the Ctrl + F keyboard shortcut. This will move the text cursor to the search bar, and a list of recently used queries will appear below the line.
Enter the name of the folder you want to find in the highlighted search bar and press the Enter key on the keyboard or wait for the system to automatically respond to the request.
The browser's browsing area displays a list of files and folders that match the search term.
You can also find the desired folder, knowing its name, through the "Start" menu. To do this, open the menu and place the text cursor on the search line "Find programs and files" by clicking on it with the left mouse button once.
Then enter a query with the name of the folder you are looking for in the search bar and press the Enter key or wait for the automatic display of results, in the list of which the files, folders and programs corresponding to the query will be displayed.
Search optimization
To speed up the search for files and folders on a personal computer, Windows operating systems use the file and folder indexing feature. In non-indexed directories, searching for files and folders can be slow and inefficient. To add any location to the system index, go to the "Start" menu and select the "Control Panel" line on the right.
In the list of the control panel, select the line "Indexing options" by clicking on it with the left mouse button once. In the dialog box that appears, a list of indexed directories is displayed. If the list does not show all the locations on your computer, click the Show All Locations button at the bottom of the window.
Then click the "Change" button and in the window that opens, in the "Change selected locations" list, check the boxes next to the lines with the names of the directories that need to be added to the index for quick search. Click OK and close all the Indexing Options dialog boxes.
Please be aware that only the computer administrator account is allowed access to the location indexing options. when you try to change them, the operating system may ask for a password.
