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While it is always a good idea to know where specific files that you work on are located on your laptop computer, sometimes you wind up discovering that the file you need to access is not where you thought it should be.

Often you look in a few other places only to discover that the file is not there either. Luckily there is an easy solution to this problem.

If you are using one of the laptops under 100 running XP you can simply use the Windows XP Search feature to find your files.

This is also a good way to locate any system files you may need to check (otherwise you would have to set your laptop to show these though since they are hidden by default).

To access this handy feature simply click on the Start button and choose Search.

If you then click on "All files and folders" you will be able to narrow down your search parameters accordingly. This will help your laptop search perform much quicker because you have reduced the amount of locations that the laptop will search thus saving time. The more details you can provide the better.

This information includes:

• All or part of the file name
• A word or phrase in the file
• You can specify the specific drive to search (a huge time saver)
• When the file was last modified
• The size of the file

Additionally there are advanced search options which will allow you to take a peek at those hidden as well as system files. Use caution anytime you are working around these though.

Many of the cheap laptops under 100 run XP, and many people still prefer to use this operating system. The ease of use, familiarity and straight forward uncluttered laptop computing environment is simply a nice alternative to other operating systems. Hopefully this tip on how to search for files in XP comes in handy next time you need to locate a file on your laptop computer.

Designs will vary widely in the laptop computers just as they do in personal computers in general. Because laptops are portable the designs will mainly focus on integrated components to reduce space more often mainly because of size limitations. After all, the idea is to manufacture the most lightweight personal computers possible. The video capabilities are often integrated into the system board in the latest portable computers as well as many of the cheap laptops under 100 which are featured here. With boards having this capability, typically they are produced by companies such as Intel for example, the actual chipset is perfectly matched to the system not only design wise, but usage wise as well. The concept being in many cases that the system memory will be shared with the video needs of the computer during various tasks providing the ultimate in utilizing the system resources with one another.

Obviously the design variations mean that some laptops are designed for the most common usage, thus providing the consumer with an opportunity to have a reliable, powerful laptop that is not overburdened with unnecessary features. In cases where there is actually a need to perform ultra high end computing tasks such as what video production businesses require, the much more powerful and expensive laptops will be required. For the everyday usage which is most commonplace today, the used laptops under 100 are often the right choice, especially when budgetary constraints are important for the consumer to remain within. There are other very common integrated capabilities found within the majority of laptops as well. One such example is the sound capabilities.

For anyone who is familiar with doing fairly simple upgrades to their computers, they may have added a PCI card or some such technology to their computer in the past. Obviously with laptop computers this is not the same because the sound card is actually part of the motherboard itself in most cases. As we used the Intel chipset as an earlier example, the same premise can hold true for the audio portion of the board. Even if you were to take 100 laptops randomly and look at who the manufacturer is, you will likely find that there is an Intel component in possibly the majority of them. This includes cheap laptops under 100 and they themselves are often examples of the used laptops which were not so long ago utilizing cutting edge technology. Yet as technology continues to evolve, design elements such as the aforementioned integrated capabilities have been an essential engineering approach to laptop computers since their conception and remain in the latest versions found today.