Scratch that…if you change the folder to a “documents” folder, you can group stuff inside them :D.

Yep, I’m glad you figured that out!

For instance, I’m currently sharing a laptop with vista on it with my sister. We both have a folder in documents for our stuff. But thus, since they are just subfolders in the documents folder, nothing inside can be grouped.

It’s sad.

What about save searches? What about using saved searches instead of real folders like smart folders in Mac OS X? What about the AND, OR and NOT operators? What about the index of searches that is basically a piece of s*it?

I’ve wasted my time here.

Must be your first time stopping by here. We’ve already written about that:
http://cybernetnews.com/2007/0.....op-search/

I’ve wasted my time here.

Vista is so blamed everywhere that it’s good to hear about some its features

Vista is heavily criticized, and a lot of the people who I hear hate it are often the ones who haven’t even tried it. They just hear about stories from other people and they decide they want to stay away from it.

I have 3GB on one of my machines, and 2GB on the other two machines running Vista. I want to use 64-bit Vista on my computer but there are problems with drivers and such that have not been completely developed, and I don’t feel like jumping through hoops trying to get it to work.

Ryan wrote “….But it’s better to run Vista with 2Go ram to get all of it. Below, complaining is just not honnest!

Vista runs clearly even better with 4Gb of ram. Then it takes full advantage of SuperFetch, and programs loads much faster. Also desktop works smoother. Ram is almost free nowadays so í really recommend 4gb + 64bit Vista especially for high-end machines.

I hate to say it but this is a far step away from what Stacks are on Leopard. Like really far.

In Stacks on Leopard you can visually see what the document is as opposed to the little tiny icon that states GIF, JPEG or otherwise, as seen above.

Give it a couple of months and I’m sure that a true Stacks clone will hit the web for all those in the wonderful world of windows.

Nice try but no cigar.

Huh? We never even made that comparison. Vista’s Stacks were never meant to compete with Leopard’s Stacks. And there already are clones of Leopard’s Stacks for both Windows and Linux.

In Stacks on Leopard you can visually see what the document is as opposed to the little tiny icon that states GIF, JPEG or otherwise, as seen above.

Give it a couple of months and I’m sure that a true Stacks clone will hit the web for all those in the wonderful world of windows.

Nice try but no cigar.

File grouping is also available in WinXP inside “Organize Icons” in the Windows Explorer contextual menu or in the top “View/Organize Icons” menu.

It doesn’t perform exactly the same way though. You can arrange the icons according to type, name, and more, but it doesn’t actually group them. So that is technically considered sorting, and not grouping. The groups in Vista can be expanded and contracted.

I hadn’t used it all that much until I really sat down to figure out how it works. Now that I understand it more I’ve found that I use it all the time.