Vista Tip 4: Command Prompt Here
in Vista onRead moreThis feature is finally integrated into Vista. To use it in Windows Explorer:
- Shift+right click on a folder (works only in the right part of Explorer window)
- Choose Command Prompt Here in the context menu
0Vista Tip 3: Copy Path of Selected File
in Vista onRead moreIn Windows Explorer:
- Shift+right click on file or folder
- Choose Copy as Path in the context menu
Vista Tip 2: Quickly Starting a Program with Administrator Rights
in Vista onRead moreTo start a program with administrator right, simply:
- Search for a program using the start menu
- Pressing Ctrl+Shift+Enter starts the program with administrator rights
Vista Tip 1: Searching in Vista
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When typing something into the text box at the bottom of the start menu, Vista starts searching. By default Vista searches the following areas:
- Everything on the desktop
- All start menu entries
- Favorites
- History
- Contacts
- E-Mails
- My documents folder
Saving Searches
When searching in Windows Explorer, each search can be saved by clicking the Save Search button. Saved searches will be saved in the Searches folder. They are saved as XML-files with the extension .search-ms.
Enhanced und natural language search
Queries like documents modified last month or kind:docs modified:last month are possible.
To activate this search features perform the following steps:
- Open Windows Explorer and click on Organize
- Select Folder and Search Options
- On the Search tab check the option Use natural language search
A complete list of search features in the Advanced Query Syntax (or Natural Language Query) is located here.
Using AQS in own applications
If you are using the OLE DB provider for Windows Search for executing user defined queries, you can simply implement the ISearchQueryHelper interface. The method GenerateSQLFromUserQuery converts AQS queries to SQL queries, which can be passed to the Windows Search OLE DB provider.
Vista Tips Galore
in Vista onRead moreYou may have recognized, that I didn’t blog about anything in December and January is about to end as well. This is unacceptable and has to be changed. 😉
Well, I thought long and hard about what I could do and finally came up with an answer:
I will write one blog post each day of February containing a tip, trick or tweak for Windows Vista!
And do you know what’s best? You even get one additional post for free, since 2008 is a leap year 😉
So stay tuned for some tips you may, or may not know. Those guys of you, who where at my talk at the Bonn-To-Code.Net User Group meeting about “Vista in der Praxis” may already recognize some tips.
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