I believe that many of my friends have already used Windows Vista. Its search function is extremely powerful. In addition to searching directly in the search box of the start menu, if you press the "win+F" key combination to open the search browser and switch to advanced Search mode, you can manually specify the search location, date, size, name, tag, author and other conditions, so that you can locate the search target in a shorter time.
In fact, we can further improve the search efficiency of Windows Vista. Here is an example of Vista SP2:
Tip 1: Quickly update search results
In actual work, we may often need to be fixed at some time. Search for files in different formats under the path, but if you re-set the search criteria every time, it is quite troublesome. In fact, we can create multiple different search result files, and then directly double-click to update the search results:
For example, after completing the search for the ".zip" file format, click the "Save Search" button on the toolbar. The "Save As" dialog box will pop up. The file name and save path can be specified by yourself. As for the save type, you don't need to change it. After saving, we can get a file with the extension "search-ms". Double-click the file directly afterwards. Get the latest search results, and the efficiency is naturally much higher than the re-search.
If you want to change the search format, you can open the search result file with Notepad, find "Operator="contains" value=".zip"", change the ".zip" to ".rar", and save it after it takes effect. drop out. In the future, you only need to double-click the search result file named ".zip.search-ms" to find out that the search result content has changed.
Tip 2: Search for files in both formats at the same time
Just change the search results file to search for files in both formats:
For example, you need to search for .pdf or .jpg at the same time. For the formatted file, first enter ".pdf .jpg" in the "Name" box. Note that the space is separated by a space of half a corner. Click the "Save Search" button on the toolbar to confirm that you will get the corresponding XML file. . Open the search result file with Notepad, press the "Ctrl+H" key combination to open the replacement dialog box, replace "andCondition" with "orCondition", and save the changes and exit. Double-click this modified search result file, as shown in Figure 1, you can see that the search results already contain two files in different formats. If you need to search for other formats, you can change them in the same way.
Fig. 1 Vista Search
Tip 3: Enable natural language
We know that Google and Baidu both provide an "or" search function, which can search with more than two keywords at the same time. In fact, Windows Vista There are also such features, but they are disabled by default.
Open the "Folder Options" dialog box, switch to the "Search" tab, find the "Search Method" section, check the "Use natural language selection" check box here, other options can be set according to the actual situation . When you need to search for files in multiple formats in the future, you can directly enter ".pdf or .jpg", where "or" means the connector "or", and you can see the effect shown in Figure 2 immediately after execution. It should be emphasized that we can use such natural language search in various places such as the search box in the upper right corner of the window, the search browser, and the "Start Search" box of the start menu.
Figure 2 Vista Search