Advanced Search – shortcut
Posted by Wayne on November 28th, 2008 filed in Vista Tips 'n TricksSteve (one of the other trainers at work) was complaining the other morning about Vista / Server 2008′s Search Feature. For reasons best known to himself, Steve is not running the indexing service, so his searches are a tad slow. His main complaint was that to get an “Advanced Search” option to appear in Explorer, he had to type nonsense into the Search bar, wait for it to fail and then he’d get the “Advanced Search” option. To stop the dissing of Vista / Server 2008 I did a bit of searching myself … and found that the “Windows Key + F” brings up the exact view Steve wanted! Happy Stevo, plus another neat keyboard shortcut to use.
ps: here’s a good link ( http://www.seoconsultants.com/windows/keyboard/ ) for an explanation of what every key on a standard keyboard does, along with all the shortcuts. Be warned, the last section mentions using the * key on the numerical keypad, and recommends not hitting it while the C: drive icon is chosen … are you one of those people that can’t resist trying out things that we are told not to try? Heh .. I bet all of you that read this will try it!
August 1st, 2009 at 4:12 pm
Almost perfect. What I would really like is something that opens an advanced search by default.
I know it’s only a single mouse click to get the advanced search, but why not automate the process to give me exactly what I want, not almost what I want?
Any thoughts on how?
December 11th, 2009 at 5:17 pm
Cool shortcut waynem. Have made a BIG mental note of it.
I was watching The Godfather the other night when my laptop suddenly crashed, trying to re-find the file on my hard drive took me ages… wish I’d of read this post as would have saved me 15 minutes of searching.
Regards,
Sam