I agree that Windows7 search is a big improvement. It's not the holy grail but no tool every will be, because there are always exceptions where you need that extra feature. But 99.9 % of all my searches are now no-brainers, same in Outlook search. I adopted this way of searching in many of our applications and it is really 100 times better, and the users love it. Only thing that could have helped is a button "advanced search" that gives an easy to use search builder, for those special situations. But I must admit I never needed it until now.

>I didn't say it was faster. I said it's easier to use. I found XP search UI to be horrible. Windows7 is much improved, but still not ideal.
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>>I have to disagree. Search in Windows 7 was rendered unusable. We do alot of searching (file based business). Search is vastly slower since XP, and Windows 7 was the last straw. We've added AgentRansack for file searching, excellent tool.