I tried to be methodical when I went through one of the world's most talked about daoters.
I wrote down what types of searches I did and what folders I went through.
In order not to be colored by material that someone else before us has already placed in some folders on the desktop, I initially ignored them and instead went through folder after folder thoroughly.
But a strange pattern repeated itself.
Every time I found an interesting name or company, I searched for websites where they appeared together with Hunter Biden.
And there was almost always a single search result, an obscure website where someone already seemed to have published information about the current email or document.
Whispered on Twitter
On Twitter, I could also see how threads about Hunter Biden's computer were whispered in threads and how links to download pages with various documents from the computer were published in anonymous tweets.
So we know that there are a number of people who already have access to the computer in its entirety.
One user was not anonymous.
Jack Maxey was one of the hosts of the podcast War Room, created by Donald Trump's former adviser Steve Bannon.
We know that Bannon tried to spread material from the computer in various ways, and that it was Donald Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani who first spread information from the computer to the New York Post.
On Twitter, he publishes links where his followers can download content from the computer.
I get in touch and ask him why he devotes so much energy to spreading the material even though the choice is over.
He says that it is his patriotic duty, that he publishes what he knows because he fears for his safety and that there is a lot of compromising content from the computer that has not yet reached the world.
Twitter did not agree and shut down Maxey's account, citing that Maxey engaged in "repeated misuse" of the service.
Lists accusations
During my brief conversation with Maxey, he lists a large number of accusations against Hunter Biden and his father that he says he found on the computer.
Some allegations consist of completely legitimate allegations that have already been published in various quarters.
But his accusations also contain a number of assumptions, exaggerations and even outright inaccuracies.
Of course, he does not agree and believes that the issue of Hunter Biden will pursue Biden's term.
In that, I think Jack Maxey is right.
Men loyal to Trump will continue to try to find things on the computer.
Each time information about Hunter Biden is published, such as his autobiography released this week, the computer will be reviewed again in search of untruths from Biden or material that in a new light could be compromising.
Obsession can strike back
If in the future charges are brought against Hunter Biden in the police investigation that are said to apply to suspicions of money laundering and fraud, the computer will also be combed again for evidence that strengthens those suspicions.
In the world of Trump loyalists, troublesome information about Hunter Biden is synonymous with problems for President Biden.
Some post-election analyzes indicated that Donald Trump could have won if his campaign focused more on, for example, stimulus packages and less on Hunter Biden and accusations of vote-rigging.
In other words, obsession with the computer may backfire.
But we do not know anything about that yet, and until then, Jack Maxey and the others will learn to continue.