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The Windows Vista Team Blog is dedicating some posts to searching. The first is called Putting advanced searches to work for you and introduces the series. It was followed by Advanced search techniques which has a large list of operators to help create more defined searches. Today’s post, Searching, part II: Using Search Folders discusses Vista’s new feature that allows you to create customized searches that look like folders. Check them out and master your search techniques!
Microsoft offers tips on searching in Vista
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Carmen
May 13, 2007 at 9:58 pm
VISTA SUCKS! I’m using it at school library. I’m in the market for a new laptop, and after using VISTA, let me tell you, I WILL CHANGE TO MAC!!!!
Joe
May 13, 2007 at 10:23 pm
Macintosh is a viable alternative for some, depending on your needs (for most it depends if the software you need to run is available on the Mac). What sucks about Vista that won’t also suck on OSX?
Technipages
May 19, 2007 at 1:27 pm
If you need tutorials on searching, it’s not easy enough to catch on. Google bases everything on simplicity which is the reason they get bigger and bigger every day. If you build something that people can just instantly “get” and start using, people will adopt it and it will catch on.
Joe
May 19, 2007 at 4:54 pm
In Microsoft’s defense (I don’t do that very often!) the tutorials are for more advanced searches. Even with Google, I have to look up the operators and such to do an advanced search, as it’s not something I tend to do every day. That being said, I’m sure there is a way to make it easier/more intuitive to do advanced searches, they just haven’t figured it out yet.
angel
Feb 26, 2008 at 12:39 pm
Plz help I have downloaded a butt load of music files using limewire now I want to move all the files to a new folder but hen i do a search for them nothing comes up. Does vista have the search all music like xp has? How do I find all my music without typing in the title of 1000 songs I have downloaded., and still find none of them. I know they are on my computer because they show up in my limewire libary.
Joe
Feb 26, 2008 at 12:49 pm
The easiest way to find them is probably to look in LimeWire to see where it is set to save files. In LimeWire, go to the Tools menu, then to Options, then Saving, then Save folder. This should show where the files are being saved. You can then go move or copy them to a different location. Keep in mind that the RIAA is suing LimeWire users (as well as others) that download copyrighted music!
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