OT: vista cool feature!

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> At Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 08:54:58AM -0400 or thereabouts, 
> suspect Kenneth Brody was observed uttering:
> > The rest of the blob talks about programs (some of them 
> free) that add 
> > this functionality to XP.
> > 
> > Some of the names are Colibri, Launchy, and SlickRun.
> > 
> > I have never used them, so I can only comment about the fact that 
> > posts on this blog point out that installing Vista just for this 
> > single feature is overkill.
> 
> And will suck all but the best current hardware dry for the 
> top versions, from what I've heard.  Of course, I know what 
> -one- of John's systems is, and there's not much worry there. 
>  But why feed power to the OS when it could go to applications?
> 
> I'm still trying to figure out the use for the feature 
> itself.  From how that weblog described it, it's really not 
> any better than my method of:
> 
> Start->P->U->up,up,up,left,enter
> 
> Takes me to Programs, then Utilities, and I navigate from 
> there with the keyboard and/or letters.  I could hit C twice 
> to get rid of the three up arrows in my case.
> 
> Same principle, the new one is just a bit more refined.  A 
> bit.  Not much, from the description.
> 
> It's like data entry.  When you know where your stuff is, you 
> don't even blink after a while.  And I do have to laugh at 
> how innovative they made it sound.  All I can say is, "Five 
> years, and that's the best you have to show for your 
> efforts?"  Every video I've seen shows either in earnest or 
> by spoof that Vista is basically a Microsoft rip of 
> OS/X...and a sub-par one at that, as you won't get the 
> iLife/iMovie/iWhatevers with it.  I'd rather get a Mac and 
> have better security at that point--except for the one thing 
> that keeps me from linux as a desktop:  Games.
> 
> Not that I've gotten to play more than 10hrs in 2 months.  :( 
>  For me, that's almost as bad as quitting cold turkey.
> 
> mark->

I've been readin one of the books on Vista.  Apparently vista has a very
much improved search function.  It can search text and/or metadata
infromation to help find files.  

To use the metadata functionality one will have to take the extra step in
actually filling in this information.  This function has been available in
MS Office for some time but has been defaulted to OFF.  Apparently the hid
the option to turn on this function quite well.  

It has been suggested that when one turns on the indexing function for the
first time, do it at night when you or at some time when you don't plan to
use your computer for a very long time. 

If this function actually works, one could search processing tables save in
ASCII format for a given function or variable.  That would be interesting.
Say a search on DECLARE foobar.

The downside of this is that it could search indices or the keys for
matching data.  I hope there is some way to restrict the file name or type
from being indexed.  Need to do a bit more reading.

Richard Kreiss
GCC Consulting