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Find Files in Windows 98


Locate files quickly and easily! 

A program called Find can help you locate Files and Folders onyour PC. 

1) Click Start, Find and then ‘Files or Folders’ and the ‘Find All Files’window opens.

2) In the window that opens there are three boxes to fill in: 

a) In the box labeled Named, type in the full or partial file name you want tolocate.

b) You can optionally search for text within each file by entering the text youwant to search for in the box labeled ‘Containing Text’. 

Note: If you look forfiles by file name and text within the file, then only files matching bothconditions will be found. 

c) Click the arrow at the right side of the box labeled “Look In’ and in thedrop-down list that opens, select the drive(s) you want to search in. If youwant to search all folders in the drive you select, check the ‘Includesubfolders’ check box. 

3) Click the 'Find Now' button and all files and folders matching your searchconditions appear in a list. The path of each folder and file is alsodisplayed.