http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2008/09/everything_indexes_every_file_on_your_pc/ tips and downloads to help you at work and play Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:51:46 +1100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2008/09/everything_indexes_every_file_on_your_pc/comment-page-1/#comment-2228 Tim Thu, 25 Sep 2008 22:41:34 +0000 http://www.lifehacker.com.au/tips/2008/09/25/everything_indexes_every_file_on_your_pc.html#comment-2228 <p>The built in Search feature of Vista is very good.<br /> I have not bothered installing any 3rd party search apps since using Vista the last two years. <br /> I just press the windows key, then start typing the name of what I want and as I'm typing the list appears and refines until what I want is right there. apps, docs, files, folders...</p> The built in Search feature of Vista is very good.
I have not bothered installing any 3rd party search apps since using Vista the last two years.
I just press the windows key, then start typing the name of what I want and as I’m typing the list appears and refines until what I want is right there. apps, docs, files, folders…

]]> http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2008/09/everything_indexes_every_file_on_your_pc/comment-page-1/#comment-2227 idodialog Thu, 25 Sep 2008 05:55:19 +0000 http://www.lifehacker.com.au/tips/2008/09/25/everything_indexes_every_file_on_your_pc.html#comment-2227 <p>I'm a longtime user of Locate (http://www.locate32.net/) which has served well and which also pre indexes the entire system and then finds in a second. I use this more often than a content finder (Copernic is good though) even if I know the location coz I can open the file fast whithout using a file browser. Gonna try this tho - and at a first look it seems spot on!</p> I’m a longtime user of Locate (http://www.locate32.net/) which has served well and which also pre indexes the entire system and then finds in a second. I use this more often than a content finder (Copernic is good though) even if I know the location coz I can open the file fast whithout using a file browser. Gonna try this tho – and at a first look it seems spot on!

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