Know the powerful search function in windwos7

Now windows7 has been widely seen in everyday life. But for some new friends who install windows7, sometimes I want to find a long time video file or an important backup file, it will take some time to find. The following teaches you how to quickly find the forgotten files in the windows7 system.

First, narrowing down the search scope is easier

Usually we use win7 search function may be directly in the start menu of win7, but such search All index files are retrieved, and those that are not included in the index are not searchable. In addition, although the index pattern search in win7 is already very fast, if you are searching for the first time, it will take some time to build the index file, so the time will be longer.

In fact, if you know the directory where the files you want to search, the easiest way to speed up is to narrow down the search, access the directory where the files are located, and then complete the search box in the folder window. Win7 has integrated the search toolbar into the toolbar, not only to find files at any time, but also to search for any folder.
▲win7 system ubiquitous search

Second, the classification filter visual display makes the library better

Library function is one of the biggest highlights of Windows 7 system, it completely changed our file The management method is more flexible and convenient from the rigid folder mode. However, as the number of files and folders in Curry becomes larger and larger, it is difficult to intuitively select the required files from the library. In fact, using the arrangement of the good libraries can solve this problem well. Just use some examples to see how to quickly find the files needed in the library.

Click on Explorer on the super taskbar to open the library. You can see that there is a drop-down menu under the "Change your view" button on the Explorer menu bar. Types of libraries, the options in this menu are also different, such as the gallery has months, days, grading, marking several options, the document library has author, date modified, mark, type, name several options. The next thing to do is to use these different permutation options to easily find the files you need.

How to quickly find documents? The Windows 7 document library is very tightly integrated with Office documents, such as clicking the Office button in Word, selecting “Word Options/General", and personalizing Microsoft Office in “ Set the user name in the setting, and set the author information for your own Office document. In the document library, select the author's arrangement to display it according to different authors. It is very suitable for the office family to find themselves in the frequently accessed files. Write or file a file sent by someone else.

If you think this is not fast enough, you can combine powerful library search capabilities. After entering the document library, click on the search box in the upper right corner, where the search filter will be displayed (the default filter for different types of libraries is exactly the same as the arrangement options). If you want to find the files sent by colleagues, just select “Author" search filter, a long list will appear, select the pen name of the colleague in the document or directly input, combined with the preview pane to see if the document content is the file you want. .
▲ Make good use of Win7's "library" function, file search is faster

Third, narrow the scope from the search results

When we search, it is possible to produce such a situation : There are a lot of search results, and we have to further filter among the many search results. If so, it is equivalent to lengthening the search time. So at this time we can enter “Modify” or “Modify Time" in the search box, so that you can perform secondary screening in the search results according to the time range, thus effectively improving the search efficiency. This is the win7 search. A new feature.
▲ Reduce the time range for searching

Fourth, speed up the search tips

Manually add new file types, when you need to search for infrequent file types that the index does not recognize, you can also use the advanced index option. Added in to allow searching in the system by this file type. In the "Index Options" window, click “Advanced → File Type & Rarr; Add New Extension to the list", manually type the file extension, then click “Add”, then click “ Attribute indexing" or "indexing attribute and file content", so the setup is complete.

Using wildcard searches, wildcards are special characters used to replace one or more unknown characters. There are two common wildcards: an asterisk (*): can represent any string in a file. Question mark (?): can represent a character in a file. For example, to search all JPG files, just type “*.jpg” in the search bar.

V. Summary

After reading the above content, there is a new understanding of the search function of windwos7. In fact, the search function of windows7 is very light. Large, can be used at any time in the work, can greatly improve work efficiency.