Callow
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Steven Hodson said:
FYI I'll be having a bunch of Windows 7 Search related posts coming up this week courtesy of the book I got to review for Windows 7
Are you sure you want me reading and commenting on that? 
By the way, windows grep works great, is free and shouldn't be necessary
Dawn
Callow
offlineShe who must be obeyed
Also if you look at the bottom of this pic it tells you how many files and the total size, it also always told me how much free space. Win7 doesn't.
http://www.terryscomputertips.com/images/newsletters/windows-search-3.jpg
Dawn
Pierre
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Well, I agree with both Billy and Dawn. Windows 7 is awesome, but it does have its specific annoyances. The "open tray" behavior for optical drives happens to me too (both on the old system and my new one). As for Windows search, ever since XP I've found it unusable, so the new one is no disappointment. Win2k's was the last usable – and efficient – search engine included in Windows.
James
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I ditched Windows search a long time ago. To me using the built in search feature is like trying to use Windows Media Player for all of your media needs. It only has the basic things an average computer user might need, but anything more than a basic search and it's worthless. Corpernic is the best out there, IMO. I even bought the Professional version for the computers at work.
With Win 7 it really doesn't matter where anything is located these days. Just start typing whatever you are looking for in the Start Menu search and it'll pop up in the start menu results. All you have to do is type one keyword like "Printers" or "Programs or "Network" and all of the control panel applets made for those types of items will pop up and 9 times out of 10 it'll be the first option. I can't tell you the last time I opened the control panel or clicked "All Programs" and scrolled through a list of apps to find one I'm looking for.
I also really like the Recent Items for each shortcut.
Favorites in Windows Explorer is great.
What the hell are libraries for? I understand their thinking behind them, but I haven't found a good use for them yet. I thought I had when I first started using Windows 7 but after trying to use them for a bit I didn't find them that useful.
About the only thing I don't like about it is UAC. Even though they gave us the ability to change how we interact with it, it still sucks.
Pierre
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James said:
What the hell are libraries for? I understand their thinking behind them, but I haven't found a good use for them yet. I thought I had when I first started using Windows 7 but after trying to use them for a bit I didn't find them that useful.
Libraries are especially useful in a LAN environment. By default, the "save as…" dialog in most programs will open the relevant library ("Documents" for a word processor, "Pictures" for a graphic editor, etc…), and you can add any folder to a library – including a network share. This will save you some navigation.
Steven Hodson
offlineHead Honcho
James: regarding the Libraries I wrote this back before Windows 7 was released and Libraries were just starting to get talked about
http://www.shootingatbubbles.com/archives/windows-7-gets-ready-to-go-all-library-on-you/
I'll add some more to this over the next little while now t hat I have a solid reference book to go by
Wow, I'm really surprised at all the negativity toward Win7's search. I absolutely love it and find it much more useful than the search functions of prior Windows versions. Yes, Dawn, I did enable indexing... it's caused no performance issues whatsoever, and makes searching lightning fast. And I love that even though they've moved everything around and I can't find anything anymore, all I have to do is type a keyword describing the setting, applet, etc. that I'm looking for, and it pops right up.
I'm still using WinXP at work and it's painful. I can't wait every day to go home and use my Win7 system.
Callow
offlineShe who must be obeyed
HelloKit said:
Wow, I'm really surprised at all the negativity toward Win7's search. I absolutely love it and find it much more useful than the search functions of prior Windows versions. Yes, Dawn, I did enable indexing... it's caused no performance issues whatsoever, and makes searching lightning fast. And I love that even though they've moved everything around and I can't find anything anymore, all I have to do is type a keyword describing the setting, applet, etc. that I'm looking for, and it pops right up.I'm still using WinXP at work and it's painful. I can't wait every day to go home and use my Win7 system.
I have over 9000 text files that I am looking for a particular word or phrase INSIDE of. You can not separate your search file name: this / contains: that
You could in xp.
Dawn
Callow said:
You can not separate your search file name: this / contains: that
You could in xp.
Ah, I think I know what you're saying now. I can't say I've ever needed to specify both a file name and contained text in a search, even in XP. Usually the contained text and a file type, which you can do, is enough for me.
ETA: Dawn, try "filename:blah text you're looking for". Here's a full search syntax list that says it's for Vista and XP, but this says it also applies to 7. I'm not at home so can't try it out myself.
Callow
offlineShe who must be obeyed
HelloKit said:
Ah, I think I know what you're saying now. I can't say I've ever needed to specify both a file name and contained text in a search, even in XP. Usually the contained text and a file type, which you can do, is enough for me.ETA: Dawn, try "filename:blah text you're looking for". Here's a full search syntax list that says it's for Vista and XP, but this says it also applies to 7. I'm not at home so can't try it out myself.
Thanks I'll look at it but it's not the point. It WAS there, it was an excellent feature that I used alot and it's gone. That is more the point. I use windows grep which works great but I shouldn't need to.
There are so many small things in win7 that drive me nuts.
One by one I find workarounds but I resent having to.
Dawn
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