Demo: Live Icons in Windows Vista

In the last video, Esther told you all about how Instant Search makes her day-to-day life easier. Today, she's going to talk to you about Live Icons, which makes searching even faster by letting you see a preview of the files you're searching for. If you're a visual person you'll especially appreciate seeing icons instead of file names or folders, and not having to open each file individually, which saves a ton of time.   


Video: Windows Vista Demo: Live Icons

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  1. Quikboy
    Posted on: August 03, 2008 at 12:42AM  

    That's a really awesome feature. XP doesn't have anything convenient like that built in. Previewing files is pretty useful.

    It's also nice to note that this is a feature Windows had before OS X. Though of course, it doesn't have the rich GUI goodness of Apple's  Quick Look, but it was first, and you can actually  interact with the file preview.

  2. chakkaradeep
    Posted on: August 03, 2008 at 6:06PM  

    Thanks for the reply Brandon :)

  3. Sentium
    Posted on: August 04, 2008 at 11:59PM  

    Thanks Esther. I hope there will be more videos featuring other Vista enhancements, tips and tricks, and advice. Nice job on this video and your previous video.

  4. mjsmead
    Posted on: September 13, 2008 at 11:11PM  

    I don't get document page just icon for document type like W for Word or X for excel

    What am I missing

    MJ

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