Is your memory not what it used to be? Is your workflow down right chaotic? Do you rush to meet dead line after deadline and often scramble some unintelligible piece of text when saving a file? Are you often careless enough not to pay any attention to where you put your saved files? Are you left the next day digging into 100+ GB of information for a 50KB file?

Vista has the answer for you. If you cannot pluck up the courage to get organized then just use Windows Vista's Advanced Query Syntax. This is another excellent enhancement over the search in XP.

Vista's Start Menu search box enables you to search files changed or created according to time references. Moreover, you can type either a description or a straight number. Searching “date:20/10/2006” will return all the files modified or created on that specific time period. Typing “date:yesterday” will do the same while “date:Friday” will point you to results changed/created on Fridays. I'm sure you get the idea.