In August, Windows Search 4.0 (WS4) was released to the masses. According to recent tests, the performance improvements were significant: 26 percent faster for Windows XP and 84 percent for Windows ...

Back in the days when Windows had a project name of “Longhorn”, one of its potential features was a relational database driving the file system, i.e. SQL Server running the command line or “find” ...

If you’re coming from Windows XP land, you know the frustration of trying to find files on your hard disk – it’s slow and cumbersome. In fact, much of the software covered in our main reviews was ...

Federated Search, from a developers perspective, is like the search bar in Firefox and IE7. For the end user, and in this case, the student, it allows you to browse a search engine directly from your ...

One of the features that enterprises are anticipating in Windows 7 is its promised integration with SharePoint. Today Microsoft’s Engineering Windows 7 blog offered details of how Windows 7 federated ...

After several years of use, I'm just so fed up with the downgrade that is searching in folders in Windows 7. Is there some kind of utility, paid or whatever, that can do searches with all the advanced ...

Federated Search, despite its wonky name, is a seriously cool feature of Windows 7. Download a few "connectors" and you can search Flickr photos, YouTube videos, and other web results straight from ...

Choosing your preferred search engine is a simple way to customize your computer to meet your needs. Google is by far the most popular search engine, used about 60 percent of the time anyone does an ...

SEATTLE -- Now that Microsoft has finished Windows 7, computer users may be wondering what to do next. Especially people frustrated with Windows Vista machines or nursing along older systems, waiting ...