How to find large files on Windows 10

Is your computer hard drive or solid state drive on Windows 10 full? Want to find out all the files that are taking up the most space on the drive? Want to quickly search all large files on your computer without the help of third-party software? In this tutorial, we will use File Explorer in Windows 10 to search large files quickly.

There are a number of free utilities on the Internet to find files that "eat" lots of space on the computer. Although anyone can use disk capacity analysis software, why use third-party software when you can use File Explorer's search function in Windows 10 to quickly Quickly find large files.

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The search function of File Explorer in Windows 10 is better than ever. It has many advanced filters to quickly find the files you need. The best thing is that you do not need to remember or search the web for these filters because File Explorer currently displays all advanced filters right in the Search tab.

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In fact, you can find files of any size using the built-in search. For example, you can find all files larger than 1GB or 2GB. Here's how to find large files using Search File Explorer in Windows 10.

Step 1: Open File Explorer. Navigate to the drive or folder where you want to search for large files.

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Step 2: Click on the search field to see the Search tab.

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Step 3: Click the Search tab to see all relevant settings and options.

Step 4: Here, click Size and then select one of the filters. It provides seven filters: Empty (0 KB), Tiny (0-10 B), Small (10-100 KB), Medium (100 KB - 1 MB), Large (1-16 MB), Huge (16- 128 MB), Gigantic (> 128 MB).

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If you select the Gigantic filter (> 128 MB), File Explorer will automatically search for all files larger than 128MB.

Now, if you want to search all files larger than 500 MB. Simply enter the size:> 500MB to see all files larger than 500MB. Similarly, use size:> 1GB to find all files larger than 1GB.

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Finally, to find all files larger than 1GB but smaller than 5GB (you can set any size), just enter the size:> 500MB <5GB in the search field.

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I wish you all success!