Putting advanced searches to work for you

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re: Putting advanced searches to work for you

Nick White — Tue, 15 May 2007 19:12:24 GMT

Hey newscientist2000: you sure can -- just save your content in a non-indexed location. Currently, the index is scoped to capture locations under user profiles, but you could save the files at the root of C:, for example, which isn't indexed by default.

re: Putting advanced searches to work for you

Frank — Fri, 11 May 2007 03:30:24 GMT

On that page for search operators, it says "For example, to find e-mail from "jake" that was sent in 2005, your query would look like this: kind:email author:patrick after:12/31/2004." The search engine must be really smart to know patrick == jake:)

re: Putting advanced searches to work for you

arvindmishra007 — Thu, 10 May 2007 23:15:52 GMT

omgbbq, you don't have to start the creation of your Search Folder with an "*". Just start with a more scoped search, like on a Tag or keyword within a document. That should make the Search Explorer much faster. Then you can save that search.

Suchtechniken fr Fortgeschrittene

Teamzille.de — Thu, 10 May 2007 20:02:20 GMT

Mit Windows Vista hat Microsoft auch eine mchtige Suchfunktion in das Betriebssystem integriert. Diese Suchfunktion bietet aber noch wesentlich mehr Funktionen, als man auf den ersten Blick vielleicht denken knnte. So lsst sich zum Beispiel durch ein

re: Putting advanced searches to work for you

omgbbq — Thu, 10 May 2007 17:38:43 GMT

I tried creating a search folder using your instructions, and it's taking forever to list the tons of files I have on my machine, and when I attempt to apply the Type filter, all I see is "Computing filters..."

Is there an easy way to make a search folder without having to first list every single indexed file on the machine?

Searching, part II: Using Search Folders

Windows Vista Team Blog — Thu, 10 May 2007 16:10:38 GMT

OK, more on searching today. One of Windows Vista's coolest features that I use every day is the Windows

re: Putting advanced searches to work for you

newscientist2000 — Thu, 10 May 2007 05:50:10 GMT

Pretty Cool, seems like there are a lot of search options.

Now is there anyway to easily hide a file from these advanced searches?