How to search files in WinXP by date?
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Go to Start - Search\nIn the left menu, select "All Files and Folders"\nExpand the "When was it modified?" section\nSelect "Specify Dates"\nIn the drop-down box, select "Created Date"\nIn the From and To box, select April 20, 2006\nExpand the "More advanced options" section\nCheck the first 3 options, and deselect the last two.\nIn the "Look In:" drop-down, select "Local Hard Drives"\nUnder the Search section under "All or part of the file name:", put *.*\nIf you know any part of the file name...for example if the file name is dude.wtf, but you can only remember that it was a ".wtf" file - then put *.wtf
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u've gotta be very patient with windows coz it sucks most of the time...\nWhen its searching, dont hit the X (Close button) let it take its time...\nOne reason why this could happen is the folder in which you are searching might have a huge compressed file (any file more than 10 mb is huge for windows). Check if your folder has huge .zip or .rar files...  If yes, then therez no other option.. you've gotta wait till it completes...\n\nIf you are planning to install windows again, go for Windows 98. Its got better search algorithm than XP..\n\nThe best option: Switch to linux :)
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I'm assuming you've exhausted your History choices and Windows Search routines. You know that you can go into Windows Logs and find out when the computer was started, and if there are any errors, it will log the program name. But that's about it.\n\nUnless you are running some sort of Key Logger program, you won't know where a person has been on your computer, or which Folders were opened, because there is no change to a "Folder" when it is opened or closed, and you don't re-save a Folder once it's made. Neither is a Program File usually changed or re-saved, so there's no way to tell which programs have been run. But a data file is different. \n\nYou don't say what you are trying to do or find out. If you are trying to find a file that you've lost or used before, then it's one way, but if you're trying to track someone using your computer, it's another way.\n\nEach time you open a data file, the date stamp is reset when it is closed. So if you are looking for a recently used data file, all you do is look for the most recent Dates. \n\nThe easiest way to do this is in a DOS window, from the Command Prompt. Click on Start, All Programs, Accessories, the click on Command Prompt to open a Dos window.\n\nAt the C:&#92; prompt, type the following:  dir date /od\n\nYou are doing a Directory sort by Date, with the latest dates last, at the bottom, so you can easily see which files have been changed or used lately.\n\nNow change directories to another Folder and do the same thing. to get Help on any DOS command, like CD or CHDIR, for Change Directory, just type the command followed by a slash and a question mark, like this  CD /?\n\nDOS has a problem with Names or Folder Names that have spaces in them. It thinks there are two separate names. So if you want to change directories to MY DOCUMENTS, then you have to enclose the whole name in parentheses, like this\nCD "MY DOCUMENTS"\n\nOr use the Explorer address bar to drag the address into your DOS window, and it will fill in the long filenames and directories for you.\n\nIf you're not familiar with DOS, you're going to have trouble, so get someone who is familiar with DOS to check all of the different directories.
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http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/default.mspx
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start -> search -> for files or folders -> All files and folders.\n\nif that doesn't find anything click 'more advanced options' and make sure that 'search system folders' 'search hidden files and folders' and 'search subfolders' are ticked and 'case sensitive' is not ticked
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http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/sp2/howto/default.mspx
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Open WMP and go to the Tools menu and then to Options. Then select "Types of files" (or "Files Types" ?)  and  you will see an option to "Select All" and "Aply"! I think this will do the trick!
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http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/sp2/features.mspx
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Microsoft discontinued the Map tool with Excel 2002 (Office XP) ... they have no means for opening earlier files containing Maps.\n\n*** Edit ***\nTry Microsoft MapPoint - it integrates with MS Office.  Might be a little pricey depending on how much you're going to use it.
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In windowsXP you can view files with the "thumbnail view".\nJPG's, pdf's, etc.\n\nIn the folder conataining the file, do VIEW and Thumbnail
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Type in search all files: Hidden folder
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Most Likely. For example, Google Desktop Search has files from 2004 even though I've reformatted several times. Also Microsoft programs keep a list of the last opened documents. Then Windows has the Recent Documents Folder and Temp Folder.\n\nLocations for some of these (Start: Run):\n\nTemp Folder: "%Temp%"\nRecent Documents: "%HomePath%/Recent"
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Windows saves the search to show up in the future. In order to clear this list, you can manually delete the saved searches from the Registry.Simply navigate to the following location in the Registry and delete any or all entries beginning with 000. Don't delete the (Default) entry. \nHive: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\nKey: Software&#92;Microsoft&#92;Internet Explorer&#92;Explorer Bars&#92;{C4EE31F3-4768-11D2-BE5C-00A0C9A83DA1}&#92;FilesNamedMRU\nName: multiple, beginning with 000, 001, ...\nData Type: REG_SZ\nValue: varies - previous search entries
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the best way is to...\n1. go to search\n2. check the box with "all documents and files"\n3. type in "temp. internet files"\n4. trail and error, start looking though all the html documents that are listed in there (if you have cleared you history trail and/or it's been more than 1 week ago [depending on how you computer is set up] this trick will not work).
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although i dont recomend going back more than 3 days http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/helpandsupport/learnmore/systemrestore.mspx
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If the file you downloaded is in the .ZIP format then winXP should handle it. However if you would like to get a free program that opens and creates ZIP files then you can get it from the link below. Good luck!
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uses ShellApi;\n...\nShellExecute(Handle, 'open', 'c:&#92;Windows&#92;notepad.exe', nil, nil, SW_SHOWNORMAL) ;