If Windows 7 has a feature murderer, is ongoing. As shown in the screen cast this week, you may find the search box in Windows 7-in the Start menu, click Control Panel, and Windows Explorer. The indexed search is fast and accurate, in my experience, and the indexing process itself is barely perceptible in terms of performance. The best change, however, is the addition of the search generator, which replaces the clumsy search forms from previous versions and allows you to filter a set of results by date, type, size, or an attribute that is appropriate for an particular type of such data as music or photos.
Every time I write about the search, at least half a dozen commentators are shown in section Talkback to proclaim that it is necessary if you know how to organize files into subfolders. But they miss the point entirely. A well-managed system of filing and rapid search index working together beautifully. As an author, for example, how should I keep my files organized? Do I have all the documents related to a project unique in its own subfolder? Or should I keep a folder of contracts, proposals, and discussed in another project in another and finished chapters elsewhere? And although I have done a perfect job of naming and organizing files, how can I find the contract had a clause on foreign publishing rights I have to talk to my agent in five minutes? A good search tool that can trace file in the second. Without it, I would have to find all contracts in each folder and open each one to see what is inside.
This is the third of four Windows 7 demos I've done in this series. Search screen cast series finale next week at this time.
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