Stilly -

Hopefully, since you've found your missing file, you're ok now. That kind of search, where you know the filename, incidentally, is one of the sort of things I'd likely use a "Command" (DOS) utility for. If you open a " Command" window (used to be a "DOS" window) and go to root (" CD\ " to C:\) then " DIR filename /S " just seems to run a lot faster than a Win Explorer search. And if you don't find it and suspect it might be "hidden" or something, ATTRIB filename /S " is pretty certain to find it if it's there.

I often use a "redirect" to a .txt to get a result that I can edit and sort, too " DIR filename *.* /S > resultfile.txt ".

sorefingers -

The formal way to get the "instruction" for a DOS command is " command /? " which works in most DOS versions since ver. 3 or so. (A few commands didn't include the text, so it didn't always work.) If you leave off the "/" a few of the older versions don't know what to do, but the stuff in most recent Windows versions knows enough to "punt" and will give you the command format.

The problem is, you have to know 1) that the command exists, and 2) how to spell it - in order to run this query.

Win 2000 and Win XP (I don't know about ME) are the first Win versions that make it easy to get a complete list of the commands that are available - in Help.

John