Create and search virtual folders
Within Windows Vista Windows Explorer, saved searches are color-coded blue so that they are distinct from the traditional hard drive folders. The best part of this is that, as you tag new files within Windows Vista, those files are automatically added to your existing saved search results. Click any saved search, and Windows Vista will run the search query again and instantly populate the search result folder with the latest information. Say, for example, you're interested in birding. As you acquire more information about, say, raptors, including various documents, images, and media files, your saved search result folder on raptors will include the latest information, no matter where it is saved on your hard drive. In Windows XP, file folders remained static unless you drag and drop new files into designated folders.
If your saved search folder on raptors becomes too large, you can reorganize the results into groups or reorganize by metatags, displaying the content on ospreys separately from that of bald eagles.
Windows Vista sets the stage for structure-less file storage, perhaps in the next Windows version. By freeing files from the folder or storage medium they reside in, users can associate data as they will, creating ad hoc collections on the fly as needed, collections that can be dissolved as quickly as they were created once they are no longer needed. This eliminates the need for dragging and dropping files, and remembering where a particular file resides.
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