Windows Vista allows you to view all your shared folders quickly. Just follow this path :

<WINDRIVE>:\Users\<USRNAME>\Searches\Shared By Me.search-ms

or just look for Shared By Me Icon  @ ” <WINDRIVE>:\Users\<USRNAME>\Searches\ ” location

As soon as you double click it , you will be shown all the folders which you had shared from your computer. This is an enhanced for of search in Windows Vista  and with indexing integrated along it just rocks. Here is the complete list which you get :

Windows Vista One Click Search

You can see the set of Recent views  for documents, email, music, pictures videos, recently changed files and shared by me icons. These are ready made solutions and most widely used. You get this when you actually open search or press f3.

Finding Files Shared by You and on a Computer in WIndows Vista

You can also do this by going to Network Sharing Center and look for the link at the end or which says 

• Show me all the files and folders I am sharing
• Show me all the shared network folders on this computer

Shared files and folders by user and on computer in Windows Vista

There are more we can do with search in Windows Vista and we are planning to roll out a complete set of article on search in vista. Stay tuned.

Tags: custom search, desktop search, vista shared folders