Search

One fine day I found myself staring at the Windows XP search animation, waiting patiently when the irony struck. The Windows XP search animation is a picture of a dog that is flipping through a book page by page searching for something. The irony here is how clear that animation depicts the actual search process in Windows XP. You give it a file name and it starts searching the hard drive file by file looking for matches.

Lucky for us Windows Vista's search is a significant improvement over XP; in fact it is very competitive with Mac OS X's spotlight service that has garnered so much attention. The search in Vista is a huge leap forward, in fact I would go so far as to say that is the single greatest reason to upgrade from XP. Vista is not only a spectacular search system, but it also excels in the usability category. This search is so good it will change the way you work with your computer. Read on to find out more tips, tricks and features of Vista's new search.