{"id":30242,"date":"2025-05-14T07:00:52","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T11:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=30242"},"modified":"2025-05-14T07:02:01","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T11:02:01","slug":"how-to-find-things-faster-on-your-windows-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/how-to-find-things-faster-on-your-windows-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Find Things Faster On Your Windows PC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"auto-style3\" style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 24pt;\"><strong>How to Find Things Faster On Your Windows PC<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">If you\u2019re searching for something on your computer, especially in a folder, we will show you a faster way to find what you\u2019re looking for.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Press the Windows Key + E to open File Explorer. If File Explorer opens Quick Access (Windows 10) or Home (Windows 11), click \u201cThis PC\u201d in the left pane.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2021\/we-search0.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight InfoAve\" width=\"600\" height=\"580\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2024\/search11b.png\" alt=\"Find Things Faster - Windows 11 - Cloudeight InfoAve\" width=\"600\" height=\"376\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">You\u2019ll see a tiny search box at the top that says \u201cSearch This PC\u201d. We\u2019ll enlarge it for you so it\u2019s easier to see<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"auto-style807\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2017\/we-search.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight InfoAve\" width=\"452\" height=\"192\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Type what you\u2019re looking for in the search box.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Here\u2019s another helpful hint. If you know the folder in which the file you\u2019re looking for is, switch to that folder first by clicking on it, and then search. It\u2019s even faster;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The search box is available for all folders. Here we\u2019re using the Documents folder as an example.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"auto-style2\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2021\/searchdocs.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight InfoAve\" width=\"582\" height=\"266\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">And if you want even faster searching, check out our freeware pick, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/search-everything-faster-with-everything\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Everything Search<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; How to Find Things Faster On Your Windows PC If you\u2019re searching for something on your computer, especially in a folder, we will show you a faster way to find what you\u2019re looking for. Press the Windows Key + E to open File Explorer. If File Explorer opens Quick Access (Windows 10) or Home (Windows 11), click\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/how-to-find-things-faster-on-your-windows-pc\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4353,3948,4221,4299,4526],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30242"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30243,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30242\/revisions\/30243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}