Search & Organize in
Windows Vista
1
Explore the new Windows Vista start menu.
Looking for specific
applications, Web sites, and e-mails is faster
than ever with the streamlined Windows Vista
start menu. To find a specific
application or file, click the Windows key on
the keyboard (or open the
start menu) and enter the file name
in the
Instant Search field. As you type,
Windows Vista dynamically searches filenames,
metadata, and the full text of all files and
displays the choices by file type. For
example, type "out" to find Microsoft®
Outlook®.
2
Discover the new search explorer.
Try filtering by type
using the
search pane and selecting
Documents. Next choose to see your
files in another way, via the new
stack view. Select the author
column header control drop down menu, and
choose the option to
Stack by author. Explore all the
documents by a particular author by double
clicking on an author’s stack. Now, save that
search as a new
search folder. Choose the option
Save Search found on the top
command bar and name and save your search
folder. In the future, to
re-run it, simply
select the
Searches folder link on the left
side navigation pane, and double click on your
search folder.
3
Experience the enhanced user interface.
If your PC supports
the
Windows® Aero™ user experience,
open multiple files and see how easy it is to
locate the right open window using the
breakthrough
Windows Flip (simply ALT+TAB)
or Flip 3D (Windows key+TAB).
Browsing with Internet Explorer 7
4
Browse multiple Web sites.
Tabbed browsing in
Internet Explorer® 7 enables a
single Internet Explorer window to run with
the convenience of multiple pages. Open a new
page by clicking the empty tab on the toolbar
or by right-clicking any hyperlink and
choosing
New Tab. Tabs can also be
right-clicked to refresh individual pages or
refresh pages as a group. You can close either
individual tabs or an entire group, and you
can save tabs as one favorite group. With the
Quick Tabs feature, the icon just
to the right of the
Favorites icon, thumbnail images of
all open tabs can be seen in a single view
helping you manage multiple open tabs.
5
Print picture perfect Web content.
Most Web sites are
simply not formatted to fit cleanly on a
standard piece of paper. With the new shrink
to fit printing feature found in Internet
Explorer 7 Web sites will no longer get cut
off when sent to the printer.
Collaboration
6
Collaborate with a co-worker.
Want an easy way to
share files and applications with a colleague
or customer—even when you may not be part of
the same network?
Windows Meeting Space is a new
experience in Windows Vista that enables you
to start an impromptu collaboration session
with other Windows Vista users. Simply open
Windows Meeting Space and start a session.
Windows Vista will automatically detect other
Windows Vista users that are on the same
sub-net infrastructure or close enough for you
to create an
ad hoc (direct
PC-to-PC connection) wireless connection. Once
you have invited them and they have accepted,
you can share documents by simply dragging a
document to the
Handouts area on the bottom right
which instantly replicates that file across
the other meeting participants’ machines.
Dragging the file to the presentation area on
the left side starts application sharing,
enabling the other participants to watch as
you present that file. If someone has a good
edit for your file, you can make that edit in
real time, or pass control of the application
directly to that participant for them to make
that edit for you.
7
Share a folder or file directly from your
PC.
Windows Vista
improves on the Windows network folder sharing
experience first introduced with Windows XP by
giving you more flexibility in what you can
share with other people and improving the
setup process. With Windows Vista you can now
share folders and individual files with any
other user on the same corporate network. From
any explorer, select a file or folder and on
the command bar choose the option to
Share. Enter the name of another
user on the same network, and give them
appropriate rights of access—reader, co-owner,
etc. To help close the loop, Windows Vista can
even automatically compose an e-mail to the
individuals with which you have shared the
content. The auto-generated e-mail contains a
hyperlink to the shared content, enabling the
recipient to instantly be taken to the shared
content.
8
Create an XPS Document.
XPS documents are a
new archiving format perfect for preserving
content and for securely sharing information
in an application independent way. To create
an XPS document, open any document in
virtually any application, and select the
print option. In the printer selection menu,
choose
Microsoft XPS Document Writer, and
save the file. Double click on the file, which
should open it in the
XPS Viewer, which is hosted by
Internet Explorer 7. The XPS document is a
pixel-perfect rendition of the original source
material.
Backup & Security
9
Speed up your PC’s performance.
Windows Vista
introduces a new concept for adding additional
performance to a running system.
Windows ReadyBoost™ lets people use
flash memory on a USB 2.0 drive, SD Card,
Compact Flash, or other memory form factor to
provide additional memory cache—memory that
the computer can access much more quickly than
it can access data on the hard drive. Insert a
USB 2.0 memory drive with at least 512 MB
capacity. When prompted, click
use this device to speed up my computer.
10
Recover a previous version of a document.
Windows Vista
introduces a new feature:
Previous Versions. This allows you
to "roll back" the clock to an earlier version
of a file that you may have accidentally saved
over or edited. In the
Documents Explorer, open a
document, edit it, save it, and then close it.
While selecting the document, choose the
Previous Versions option on the
command bar, which will bring up a list of
previously saved versions of the individual
file. Choose a previous version and Windows
Vista will restore your file to that version.
Careful: all edits since that version will be
lost.
Windows Vista Tips &
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