Windows Vista and Windows Desktop Search 3.01 recognize many advanced query operators that can make your desktop searches super-pinpointed. This document provides an exhaustive list of those operators. On Windows Vista you can use these operators to define a search, and then save it as a Search Folder. Once you start using these terms in searches and Search Folders, you'll wonder how you ever got along without them!
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News source: Windows Vista Blog
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It would be nice if there was a print version
"Note: Boolean operators must be in all UPPERCASE letters.
Boolean operators
(A list of boolean operators and examples follow)"
And all the examples are in lower case. I know the first boolean operators was referring to the AND OR NOT stuff, but not everyone can figure that out.
You miss indexed search that means you can find test inside documents/mails/etc instantly.
Right now, people are having to manually DISABLE the service every time they want to play games with any decent frame rate because the Vista version of this application is ALWAYS hitting the hard drive...ahem.
XP did it right. Google indexing does it better. Why can't the Vista version of this excellent technology work better than the XP version does?!
I've never heard of anyone disabling the indexer to play a game, and it certainly hasn't ever been necessary on any of my machines.
Mikee
Maybe it's only a question of using it, but should a new or moderate user always open this website to see which terms are possible? Sorry but who can remember all this things?
There is no overview like this in the windows help nor something like a "query builder", and you get no warning if the search term is wrong.
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