Each computer user has to work with many files. You have to know how to create, copy, move, delete and rename files and you have to know which file management tools use to perform these tasks. The feature of My Documents, My Pictures and My Music folders has morphed into single type of folder called an Explorer. In all Explorer look and work the same, which is slightly different working in Windows XP. For ex, you will not find a Task Pane in a Windows Explorer nor will you find a File Menu.
The Instant Search function used to find the files and folders then more useful. Vista automatically indexes all the files on your PC, shut in key metadata for each file. You can then use Instant Search to easily finding files, based on the keywords you enter. It is a lot faster than the past Windows search technology, and it works very well. Vista also introduces the concept of virtual folders to the desktop. These are folders that are not really folders. You use virtual folders to group same types of files wherever they are stored on your hard disk, without having to move them to recent locations. Vista was originally slated to shut in a completely new file system is called Windows Future Storage, that would apply a relational database model to data storage for more efficient and faster searching.
