search tool bar please help!

I'm a
teacher who has just replaced my school vaio with vista vgn-bx41xn to a
private
vgn-cr42. I have followed advice to replace the help / support in the
start menu with search as apparantly it has gone
due to the SP1 changes. It worked however the search tool bar that it
gives me
is not the one I used to have, in fact it only gives me a thin Google
based
search which only brings up a fraction of what I know I have on the
computer.
What I'm trying to say - badly I know is that I have transferred all of
my
teaching materials onto my new computer and I want to be able to search
the
whole computer using the search toolbar but it doesn't look like the
old vista
search I did which gives you the name of the file, date modifies, type,
folder
etc also within this search you can modify it to only search for docs,
or video
etc. Now I do know that I can still do this on my new computer however
I have
had to collate all of resources onto one file called sarah I now have
to go
directly into this file on my desktop then in the top right hand area I
can
carry out the search that I am used to carrying out on my old vaio. The
search
everywhere one is useless as I have already said even though I have
gone through
the process of replacing it onto the start menu it just doesn't open up
in the
way the old one did. I hope this makes some sense as I would like to
know that
that I don't have to put everything into this one file forever. I hope
someone reads this that will be able to help!!


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Sarah 6060

For some reason, MS kind of hid the main search window that works quite
well. Use your Windows Key / F to bring it up. I recommend you drag a
shortcut to your desktop for this window. Do that by dragging the
magnifying glass icon in the top bar to your desktop. I also like to right
click that and "pin to start menu" as well as drag it to my quick launch.
Now you can access the search window a number of ways. Use the Advanced
search option to specify special searches. If you have a search you perform
a lot you can save the search which will then create a folder like option
within the search window to access whenever you want. Hope this helps...

Jerry


"Sarah 6060" <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote in message
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>
> I'm a
> teacher who has just replaced my school vaio with vista vgn-bx41xn to a
> private
> vgn-cr42. I have followed advice to replace the help / support in the
> start menu with search as apparantly it has gone
> due to the SP1 changes. It worked however the search tool bar that it
> gives me
> is not the one I used to have, in fact it only gives me a thin Google
> based
> search which only brings up a fraction of what I know I have on the
> computer.
> What I'm trying to say - badly I know is that I have transferred all of
> my
> teaching materials onto my new computer and I want to be able to search
> the
> whole computer using the search toolbar but it doesn't look like the
> old vista
> search I did which gives you the name of the file, date modifies, type,
> folder
> etc also within this search you can modify it to only search for docs,
> or video
> etc. Now I do know that I can still do this on my new computer however
> I have
> had to collate all of resources onto one file called sarah I now have
> to go
> directly into this file on my desktop then in the top right hand area I
> can
> carry out the search that I am used to carrying out on my old vaio. The
> search
> everywhere one is useless as I have already said even though I have
> gone through
> the process of replacing it onto the start menu it just doesn't open up
> in the
> way the old one did. I hope this makes some sense as I would like to
> know that
> that I don't have to put everything into this one file forever. I hope
> someone reads this that will be able to help!!
>
>
> --
> Sarah 6060