Find Large Files in Windows | Computer Search | How to Search by File Type

Find Large Files in Windows | Computer Search | How to Search by File Type

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You can find large files in Windows in a few, easy steps. If you want to move or delete large files to free up the disk space, for example, then you should know how to find large files in
Windows. In computer search or PC search, you can choose to search the entire PC or a specific disk.

How much time does it take to find large files in Windows? It depends on traits like the size of the disk, the number of files it has, and how much your disk is fragmented, if at all.

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TIP: To find large files quickly, you should add argument(s) to the search command. For instance, you may want to find only large PDF files. When you specify this file type as the search command argument, Windows will complete the search faster. So, it helps to know how to search by file type.
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A thing about the PC search you would like is Windows will begin to search, as soon as you have entered just a few characters in the search box. You can stop the search any time before Windows has
completed the task.

When you do a computer search or PC search, is it possible to find files in the gigabyte range only? Yes! In fact, Windows lets you search, among others, not only gigantic files but also large and huge files. According to Windows, large files size are in the range 1MB to 16 MB, huge files in the range 16 to 128 MB, and gigantic files in the range greater than 128 MB.

It may be easy to find large files in Windows by scanning through the list of files, when the number of files on the disk are very few.
Even here, there would be scope to miss a file. And, it would not be feasible to look for a file manually when the disk has much content on it. The solution? Conduct a computer search or PC search to find large files in Windows efficiently. Further, as mentioned before, if you know how to search by file type,
Windows will complete the search faster.

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