Vista Search. Changing the way I work.

15/09/2008 by Gavin.

I’ve never been the most organised person, and I used to have to make a real effort to archive and file documents properly.  I have around 3TB in hard disk space full of ’stuff’.

With the harsh criticism that Vista gets I’d like to trumpet one feature that really has been a huge thing for me, instant search.

Whether it’s mail, documents or programs, I do virtually everything now from the Vista search box.  No more organising programs into folders and sub folders, I never file mail into separate directories for ‘family or ‘work’, no more ’start - accessories - progx - prog’,  and I don’t worry about where I saved that document.  Just type the first few letters of what you’re looking for into the search box and up it comes.

Now, I know I use pretty powerful hardware to run Vista, and many people automatically switch search off in a quest to speed up Vista, but I’d suggest giving it another go if you’re one of those people and are running anything like modern hardware.  When I go back to XP, like on the Dell, I really miss the search option.  I know there is Windows Search for XP but it just doesn’t work as well.

Hmmm, Vista on the Dell Mini 9…..I wonder……  

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