I found search horrid in XP and win2k...vista better, 7 has been great but not perfect. I can open any program or utility, control panel, management tool I want right from the start menu. Easy. I have thousands of mp3's, loads and loads of pics etc...I run a program called everything that is small and all it does is index filenames...searches with this are done in real time, zero wait.
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 9:19 PM, b_s-wilk <[email protected]> wrote: > Uhh. Mkay, if you can't figure out where to go from there, perhaps you >> should not be using a computer. How about clicking on the word "Help"? >> >> Frankly, I don't see how a noob is going to make the connection in OSX to >> click on an oval shaped white spot at the top right of the Finder window and >> type "help" into that. >> >> If someone is that clueless about computers they really should get some >> assistance. It would be an interesting exercise to put some 100% no nothing >> (about computers) people in front of a few computer systems and see how they >> make out with no help whatsoever. >> > > I have seven apps open now. Each has "Help" in the menu at the top of the > screen as the last menu item. There's also a spyglass or magnifying glass > icon at the far right of the screen for searches. The Help menu is pretty > straighforward, not revealed by pressing an F-Key or in a Start menu. > > My aluminum keyboard doesn't have a Help key, although I could program one > if I wanted. Noobs don't need that. All they have to do is look at the > display and the word Help is at the top in menus for each program. > > The thing I don't understand is searching in Windows. Windows used to have > the best search features, many times better than on Classic Mac. Now any > time I search for something, even if I'm looking at the file, Windows can't > find it. Yes, I could do an advanced search, but most people wouldn't do > that. So if you want to search for Help files, Windows might not find them. > Mac OS X.5 isn't quite as bad, but its default is search by content instead > of by name, and you can't change it until after the results appear. > > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
