>>All of this actually points out that treeview is not the best GUI in which to hold the whole directory structure. It may have been nice on a 32M or 240M drive, but with today's terabyte drives and thousands of directories, you can't expect your user to click his way through that forest. There should be some way to go straight to what you want to do, without actually having to memorize the place. Ummm... using a computer for that should make it easier, eh?
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>Isn't that the idea behind the Search box off Vista's Start button? (Stolen from the Mac, of course).

No. The search in Windowses was always based on brute force indexing of everything. Launchy indexes only the few locations you point it to, and them for the file extensions you specify, no more nor less than that. And only filenames, doesn't pee(k) into your files.