Windows 10 has many features that you can use. Most will probably go unused when you use your computer because there are 3 ways to do everything. But the most common question I get when working in the field is how to create shortcuts to information that you would want to get to periodically. So let’s get started:        1. Right-click on your desktop and there will be an option for new, then click the shortcut, as pictured below: Create Shortcut       2. You will be presented with a new window asking for the location of the item you want to have a shortcut to, this can be either a web address or it can be a folder location that you want access to. You Would enter that here and click next, as pictured below: Create Shortcut      3.  Once you hit next, it is going to ask you to name the shortcut, this can be named anything you like, it is for your reference, for simplicity, I’m naming my new shortcut and clicking next. Create Shortcut You now

So far we learned all about how to search your computer in different ways. If you haven’t seen these articles or videos. Be sure to check them out, I showed how to search through File Explorer and through the taskbar search. But today we are going to focus on customizing search results and how we can change things around. What is the search index? The search index gets to work as soon as you started your computer the first time, it’s not searching when you type in a search. Windows begins to search your computer as soon as you turn in on and is constantly updating what is called the index of your computer. It not only saves the name of files, but it will also index the contents within some files. I say some files as it doesn’t do it to all files, and this can be customized within the index settings as we will cover here. But first, let's take a look at folder options search settings. You can get to these settings by opening up the file explorer, selecting View, then sel

There are multiple ways that you can search in Windows, the File Explorer search is no exception and we’re going to go over what you can do in this tutorial. One of the benefits of the File Explorer search is you have more real estate for search results. Couple things to note about the File Explorer search box: You can make the search box bigger by bringing your mouse cursor over the edge and dragging it out more. When you type in your search item, you will get another tab called a search that will give you more search options, these options are described below: This PC: this will expand your search to the entire computer. Current Folder: This will only search in the current folder that you’re in. Special note, it will literally only search for the folder that you’re in, not even the subfolders. All Subfolders: this will allow you to search for all the subfolders too. Search again in: This will remember where you have a search in, in the