- [Narrator] Let's use the search tool in Windows
to find documents and applications on my computer,
or to do web searches.
In the task bar, there is this magnifying glass icon,
and that is the window search.
Now, if you don't see that button in the task bar,
you can turn it on in settings.
So, go to the start menu.
I'll go to settings.
On the left,
we'll go to the personalization section,
scroll down a bit and go to task bar,
and you can turn the search button on
or off from here.
With that turned on, I have the Windows search button
in the task bar,
so I can click on that to open this panel,
and then I can just do a search.
I'm going to search for the word California,
and you can see, we get a bunch of search results.
Some of these are for folders on my storage drive.
Some are documents and it actually even searches for words,
inside of documents.
And some of them are web search results.
Now, next to any search result,
I could click the arrow to get some information about it.
And if you click on the search item you want,
it will open that actual file or a document or a website.
So if I click on this folder,
it will open that folder in file explorer.
For now, I'm just going to close this
and go back to Windows search,
and let's search for California again.
Now, since this is a mix of different types
of search results,
you may want to filter
these two different specific types of information.
So, maybe I don't want to see my files.
Maybe I only want to see search results on the web.
Well, I can see those filters at the top
so I can click on web,
and now I only see web search results.
And if I click on documents,
I only see documents on my computer.
Okay, let's go back to this search field.
I'm going to delete that to clear what's there.
And this time, instead of starting with the search term,
then filtering it down after
you could start with the category.
So, we have these category filters up at the top
and you want to make sure to click more, to see all of them.
One nice thing is that you can search for something inside
of Windows settings.
So, I'm going to choose settings.
And then maybe I can't remember
how to set my screen resolution.
Well, I could search for that here.
I'll just search for resolution,
and it's only searching inside of Windows settings.
Now I could choose a different search filter up at the top,
or I could just click on the search result that I want,
and it opens it up inside of Windows settings.
For now, I'll just close this.
And sometimes I just like to use Windows search
as an application launcher.
So, you could open Windows search
and right here in the panel,
there are shortcuts to applications that I use most often,
or I could just search for the name of another application
and then I can hit the Return Key,
and it launches it pretty quick.
So, I'm going to close that.
And another way to use Windows search is
in a File Explorer window.
So, open up File Explorer and you'll see,
there is a search field up here in the top right.
When I use this,
it will only search through files on my computer,
not the web, not in settings.
Now, if I did the search right here,
it would search through everything on my storage drives,
but I could narrow this down by selecting a folder first.
So, I'm going to go to the shortcut for my pictures folder.
So now, I'm in my pictures folder,
then I'll click on the search field.
I'll search for the word recipe and it finds nothing
because there's nothing in this folder that has that word.
But if I clear that, so I'll delete what's there.
And this time I'll type in JPG,
which is the three-letter extension that appears at the end
of picture files.
Well, in this case it does find a lot.
Or if I go over to my documents folder,
and this time I'll search for recipe here,
and it does find a lot of stuff because there are documents
that have that word in them, in my documents folder.
And from here,
I could double click on one of these to open it directly,
or I could do a single click to select it
then right click on it.
And I can choose open file location,
which takes me straight to the folder
where that file is stored.
So, those are the core tools for finding something
on your computer, or on the web using Windows search.