Two of the new file-organization concepts that Windows Vista has brought to the table are outgrowths of existing ideas that may be familiar to some people but not to others: tagging and stacking (or stacks). In this edition of the XP Guide to Vista I'll be exploring these two features in tandem.
As many of us know, Windows XP had its own indexed search system, but it was one of XP's most underused and badly-implemented idea. Vista's systemwide search system takes the same basic idea -- crawl the most commonly-used directories of the user's PC for content which can be indexed for fast searching -- and gets it mostly right.
The bad news: if you're used to the way XP does searching, you're going to need to learn how to do this from scratch. The good news: the new search system, while it does have its quirks, can be learned and modified relatively easily. The best news: it works like magic.
