You made a file and saved it but you don't know where. Searching for files with windows is easy. Just follow along with this computer tutorial and you will find the files you are looking for quickly. We start again by moving our mouse over the start button and left clicking and then left clicking on the Search icon look for the magnifying glass.


Once you left click on the search icon the window shown below will pop up.


In the blue box on the left fill in the information you know. Let's look for the text file dan-list.txt that we made from the last lesson. I forgot the entire name of the file and where I put it. I do know it had the word dan in the file name.

So in the top box I fill in what I know dan the line below is used if you know something that is written inside the file. You can expand the other options down and look at them if you would like. Sometime they may be of use to you.  Once you have filled out the information that you know press the search button.
The picture below shows the results from my computer.


As you can see there were many results, so many results were returned because I knew so little about the file I was looking for. If you look at the file names it did find dan is in all of them somewhere. Also the very top result is the file we are looking for.

If you look next to the file name it tells you where this file is located. If you double click on the file name itself, the file will open in whatever program opens it. As you can see searching for files is pretty easy. You can find the file by it's name or part of it, you can search all of your computer or part of it and you can search for a particular type of file.

Everyone at some point and time needs to find a file they have lost, don't worry about it. As long as searching for files is this easy there is nothing to worry about.