Microsoft said that they have greatly improved the search function of Windows in Vista. Instant search and search are everywhere. Let's take a look at the enhancement of search in those areas.
Digitization is everywhere in the age of our lives. Documents, music, videos, photos, and even daily communications, including e-mail, fax, voice mail, and more, are created, accessed, and stored on personal computers. Over the past 10 years, our hard drive capacity has changed dramatically, and mass storage has become possible.
However, with the increasing number of digital data, the time and effort we spent too rapidly. In the past, relying on the Windows search function, it took 30 minutes to find a file.
Now, every resource manager window in Windows Vista is integrated with the search input box - instant search, you can search at any time, and display the search results instantly. Windows Vista remembers any information about a file: type, creation time, and even what it contains, and can find them for you in real time, and can be displayed in a variety of ways.
Search is almost ubiquitous in Vista and can be searched anywhere, anytime. We show the following aspects about this powerful feature:
1, the beginning of the panel
can see the "Start Search" input box and click the Start button , here is the instant search for matching search results. Search objects are Windows native programs and favorites and history.
2, the resource manager
First, you can navigate to a location, such as a drive or folder, enter the search box in the upper right corner to search keywords , Enter will immediately start searching at the current location. Search
Explorer can be seen from the resource manager is given a message: "Your searches may be slow because the indexing service is not Running." (Because the indexing service is not running, the search speed may be slow). This service refers to the first search index service that we mentioned that is wrong and cannot be opened: SearchIndexer.exe. Here, you can choose to open, the result is still non-stop error-off-on-error.
search index needs to open prompt service
Unfortunately, this version of Vista Indexing Service can not open, so we could not test in the end how the search speed. Take a step back, we don't use this service, look for a small folder to test the search results.
Please pay attention to the blue folder in the folder column on the left side of the figure. Blue indicates that this is a search task, which stores the current search task; the right side shows the searched target. This search result can be saved, for example, as "vista". The default storage location is the "Searches" folder, which can be searched again here according to the state at the time of saving.
should be noted that, this folder is not a file folder in the true sense, this is the stuff earlier called virtual folders, according to Microsoft's Vista document, it should be called "Search Folders "(Search folder). In fact, there are many similar folders in the "Searches" folder, representing different search tasks.
However, perhaps because the indexing service is down, the search content cannot be saved. The phenomenon is that the display is opened again after saving: there are no matching search terms.
save search results
again access the saved search folder
Moreover, these folders can search according to certain The organization mode displays: “Stack” and “Group By” views. The new stack view stacks views according to the selected column attribute values. Unlike the folder, the stack has no real physical location; the group view is similar to stacked view, it is based on the title of a column to file grouping tiled display.
stack view group view
search for files
search folder of
3, the control panel
control panel window uses a layout similar to the Explorer, also placed in the top right corner of the instant search input box. we know that the settings in the control panel There are so many projects. If you are not familiar with all the projects and need some kind of settings, just enter all or part of the task name to display all matching settings.
4, IE 7 The search
Clearly, here is the search for the network, including the search for the current page. The same is the upper right corner, where you can use the default MSN Search search, you can own from the Microsoft website find what you need search engine, add it to the list of search engines, you can override the default search engine. Unfortunately, as the Chinese localization Baidu is not in its columns, normal oh.
Microsoft's search
engine listing
IE added to the list of search engines
change the default search engine IE
5, Search Camp
start menu search program is the real powerful search, where you can set additional filters at the same time. Also, since this version of the search function is not perfect, so the more detailed the test can not be completed.
6, the search function
other programs in Windows Vista, these programs have not only search Function, many others Many programs have this feature. For example, Windows Photo Gallery, Windows Media Player, etc., no matter where you see it, just type in the content you need to find, you can find your content quickly, accurately and effortlessly. BR>
In short, this version of the search index does not work properly, which makes me very unhappy! I have not been able to experience a quick search, nor do I know if Microsoft is bragging.