Command Prompt and Windows PowerShell are also simple and built-in options covered in this post for this purpose. We have already seen how to open a file or folder using Command Prompt or PowerShell.

This article is about using MS-DOS command prompt to find files on the computer. It also show some of the MS-DOS commands.

If you want to open an Elevated Command Prompt, which is one that runs with Administrator privileges, you can see the How to open a Windows 10 Elevated Command Prompt article instead.

Jack Wallen shows you how to locate files on the Linux directory hierarchy using the find command.