Speed up your Searches (Windows Tip)

Speed up your Searches
JC Kadii, Mortgage Virtual Assistant™

With larger and larger hard drives, we often find ourselves using the "file search" feature to find files and folders.

Here's a tip for speeding up your search for files.

Let's say you're looking for flyers you've received from lenders on Community programs. They are saved in your "Lenders" subdirectory on your "C" drive.

Slowest
Click Start, then Search and then for Files and Folders. In the box under “search for files or folders named,” type the word "community."

Click Search Now, and go get a cup of coffee. This is the slowest possible way of conducting this search. Windows will look through every single folder on your hard drive.

Faster
Click Start, then Search and then for Files and Folders.

In the box under “search for files or folders named,” type the word "community."

In the box under “look in”, type "c:lenders." Click Search Now. This is much faster, because it limits Windows' search to your lenders subdirectory.

Fastest
Click Start, then Search and then for Files and Folders. In the box under “search for files or folders named,” type "c:lenders community." Make sure there is a space between the word lenders and "community." Hit the return key. You'll have your answer in the blink of an eye.

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