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This article shows you how to improve Vista search efficiency effectively. It is concise and easy to understand. It will definitely make your eyes shine. I hope you can learn something from the detailed introduction of this article.

Tip 1: Update search results quickly

In practice, we may often need to search for files in different formats under a fixed path, but if we reset the search criteria every time, it is indeed quite troublesome. In fact, we can create multiple different search results files, and then directly double-click to update the search results:

For example, after completing the search for the ".zip" file format, click the "Save Search" button on the toolbar. At this time, the "Save As" dialog box will pop up. The file name and save path can be specified by yourself. As for the save type, there is no need to change it. After saving, we can get a file with the extension "search-ms". Later, we can directly double click the file to get the latest search results. Compared with searching again, the efficiency is naturally much higher.

If you want to change the search format, you can open the search results file with Notepad, find "Operator="contains" value=".zip", change".zip"to".rar", save it and exit. In the future, just double-click the search results file "name.zip.search-ms" to see that the search results have changed.

Tip 2: Search for files in both formats simultaneously

With a few modifications to the search results file, you can search for both formats simultaneously:

For example, if you need to search for files in two different formats: .pdf or .jpg at the same time, enter ".pdf .jpg" in the "Name" box first. Note that please separate them with English half-width spaces here. Click the "Save Search" button on the toolbar. After confirmation, you will get the corresponding xml file. Open the search results file in Notepad, press Ctrl+H to open the replace dialog box, replace "andCondition" with "orCondition," save the changes and exit. Double-click the modified search results file, as shown in Figure 1, you can see that the search results already contain files in two different formats. If you need to search for other formats, you can change them in the same way.

Vista Search Tip 3: Enable Natural Language

We know that Google and Baidu both provide the "or" search function, which allows you to search with more than two keywords at the same time. In fact, Windows Vista also has such a function, but it is disabled by default.

Open the "Folder Options" dialog box, switch to the "Search" tab, find the "Search by" section, check the "Use natural language selection" check box here, and other options can be set according to the actual situation. When you need to search for files in multiple formats in the future, you can directly enter ".pdf or .jpg", where "or" means the connector "or", and you can see the effect immediately after execution. It should be emphasized that we can use this natural language search in many places, such as the search box in the upper right corner of the window, the search browser, and the "Start Search" box in the Start menu.

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