Tag Your files with Windows Vista

Now its easy to search files on Windows Vista with a new property called as “tag”. With all previous edition of windows it was very difficult to search a file if you have forgotten the exact name. Even if you remember partial name, search was difficult.But with this new feature of of “tagging” a file in Vista, searching will be much easier.

But before I tell you how it works get to know what is tagging.Tagging is adding a nick name to something which you can easily remember.Like you call your friends with nicknames rather than original name. So next time you make document on a project tag it with some cute name which is easier to remember. Lets see how do to it now!!

Steps on “How to tag files with windows vista?”

Select the file which you want to tag.
Right click and go to properties.
It will open up the property window for the related file.
Then on the property window go to Details Tab.
There you will see a label as “Tag”, You can add your tags there
Then click on Ok or Apply
Job Done.

Tag Your Files With Vista

Now next time you make a search , do a tag based search. Most of the time you will remember tags than fines hence your search will be faster and You will save time. Here is one additional bonus for you,UPDATE: New article written on Vista Tricks and Performance ( Click to read)

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Atul, April 5, 2007:

Yes i think it would be easy to get result by tagging files .But we have to remember tag name for files if we are using many tags .
Madhur Kapoor, April 5, 2007:

Ashish sir , are you using Vista
Ashish Mohta, April 5, 2007:

@Madhur: No Madhur, This feature was told me from one of my friend while I was telling him about how tagging in blogs are very important, he luckily saw this thing in Vista and told me.I got a nice tip

@Atul: You have to smart when you use tags.I agree that it can be little confusing if you tag a lto of files with different types of tag.SO best is tag what you really have to
Olivier Istace, June 10, 2007:

A windows application called TagAndFacet is available on http://www.tagandfacet.com It is running on windows Vista and Windows XP. It enables users to tag all types of files and folders. It also integrates Outlook email tagging and Internet Explorer tagging. Search capability is integrated for all sources (files, emails and urls).
It is available in pre-release mode for free.
Dragos Musat, September 16, 2007:

Olivier, u put an extra “.” in the link to TagAndFacet.. and u get an error if u click it….. i think it would be .. Cheers
Ashish Mohta, September 16, 2007:

@Dragos: Thanks for the update. I have fixed the link Cheers
Dragos Musat, October 2, 2007:

no problem.. cheers u too
Vlad, March 13, 2008:

I recommend Firefox instead of Internet Explorer for …
Firefox is free and considered by experts to be the best …

Talks, Talks, Talks, it seems to be fancy to say this kind of things, but no “expert” really showed some good reasons for that. I’m happy with IE6 and IE7, never had a problem for years.