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Find all your shared folders and recent items in one click in Windows Vista

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

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

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.

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Posted on 22nd November 2008 by Ashish Mohta , A Professional Tech blogger, Editor and Writer who talks about solving day to day problems of people who use computer. He also writes on How to use the applications like Office, PC tips, Online tools,Browsers and more. All posts by Ashish Mohta | Connect with me @ Twitter | Linkedin | Facebook | Stumble

2 Comments »

  • meh! said:

    it doesn’t seem to work, there are many posts on the internet about people complaining it doesn’t work and it seems like this feature is no yet implemented!

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