Search on a personal computer is used to quickly find a particular file (folder) or a group of files (folders). The search can often take quite a long time. This is due to insufficient computer power or any specific search parameters.
Necessary
Basic personal computer skills
Instructions
Step 1
The best way to speed up the search process on your computer is to make it easier to access files and folders on your hard drive. To implement this method, you must:
- Go to the "My Computer" folder;
- Right-click on the line with the name of the hard disk;
- In the "Properties:" hard disk "window that appears, open the" General "tab;
- In this tab, the line "Allow disk indexing for quick search" is displayed at the bottom. It is necessary to put a tick in front of this line.
- Then press the "Apply" and "OK" button.
Step 2
In addition to indexing the disk, defragmentation helps a lot. Disk defragmentation is an operation that organizes the placement of files on a disk, which greatly speeds up its work.
To perform defragmentation, you must:
- Go to the disc properties menu by right-clicking on it and selecting the "Properties" line;
- In the properties menu that opens, select the "Service" tab;
- In this tab, select the "Disk defragmentation" block and click the "Defragment …" button;
- In the window that appears, select the disk that you want to defragment and click the "Analysis" button;
- When the analysis is complete, information about the status of the disc will be displayed. If the segments are scattered, then you must defragment the disk by clicking the "Defragment" button. The defragmentation process can take a significant amount of time. The duration of the procedure depends on the frequency of its implementation.
Step 3
You can speed up the search without interfering with the system parameters by changing the parameters of the search itself.
To speed up, you can specify more specifically the following search parameters:
- File name;
- File size;
- File type;
- Date of creation of the file;
- The text contained in the file itself;
- File search location;
- Search in extraordinary places (registry, hidden and protected folders), etc.
