2. Works for me– if I type C: and hit enter in the quick search box, my C: explorer listing comes up.

3. I don’t know what crack he is smoking, but Vista’s networking is waaay better than XP’s, and this is coming from an advanced user. I like how it’s laid out, and I actually found the IP address settings in a few clicks. It helps if you read the help, too, ya know And of course, improving on something is going to bring about change.

4. Again, he just doesn’t know what he’s doing. There’s an “advanced search” dialog (which is linked off of the normal dialog) that lets you do anything you want, even search files that aren’t indexed, etc. — and the search options now gives specifics on what file types you want to index.

5. I’ve had better luck than him on this, and Microsoft has fixed some problems that have plagued the file dialogs for a while. I don’t have my network shares randomly fail, so I can’t comment on that aspect; but really, if your network shares are failing, you’ve got other problems.

2. Works for me– if I type C:\ and hit enter in the quick search box, my C:\ explorer listing comes up.

3. I don’t know what crack he is smoking, but Vista’s networking is waaay better than XP’s, and this is coming from an advanced user. I like how it’s laid out, and I actually found the IP address settings in a few clicks. It helps if you read the help, too, ya know And of course, improving on something is going to bring about change.

4. Again, he just doesn’t know what he’s doing. There’s an “advanced search” dialog (which is linked off of the normal dialog) that lets you do anything you want, even search files that aren’t indexed, etc. — and the search options now gives specifics on what file types you want to index.

5. I’ve had better luck than him on this, and Microsoft has fixed some problems that have plagued the file dialogs for a while. I don’t have my network shares randomly fail, so I can’t comment on that aspect; but really, if your network shares are failing, you’ve got other problems.