Session 2: User Productivity Enhancements in Windows Vista 9 To use the AERO interface, the graphics card of a computer must meet the following requirements: • Microsoft DirectX® 9 support • A Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM) driver • Pixel Shader 2.0 in hardware • 32-bit color support • 64 megabytes (MB) of memory to support screen resolutions up to 1280x1024 10 Session 2: User Productivity Enhancements in Windows Vista Demonstration 1: Exploring New Features in Windows Explorer In this demonstration, you will see how you can: • View thumbnails for graphics and videos. • Use advanced views for sorting files. Key Points The key points of this demonstration are: • Windows Explorer is enhanced to make finding and identifying information easier. Session 2: User Productivity Enhancements in Windows Vista 11 What Is the Index? The desktop search functionality in Windows Vista is vastly improved over the searching features in Windows XP. The Search function now includes an index of common locations to speed up searching. In addition, there are several different ways searches can be performed. The index used for searching does not track all files on your computer. Only the most commonly used file locations are indexed by default. This keeps the size of the index down and increases the speed of searching. The locations indexed by default are: • Offline files • Start menu • Users folder You can add additional locations to be indexed if you store data outside of the default locations. You can also select which file types are indexed within the defined locations. For each indexed file type, you can select whether the contents of the file are indexed in addition to the metadata about the file that is collected. For some file types, such as pictures, there is no value in attempting to index the content of the files. 12 Session 2: User Productivity Enhancements in Windows Vista Demonstration 2: Configuring Indexing In this demonstration, you will see how you can: • Configure indexing locations. • Configure advanced indexing options. Key Points The key points of this demonstration are: • The Search feature in Windows Vista uses an index to speed up searching. • The index used by the Search feature indexes only specified locations and content. Session 2: User Productivity Enhancements in Windows Vista 13 Ways to Search for Files It can be time-consuming to find a single file in a large directory structure. The Search feature in Windows Vista makes this faster and easier with multiple ways to search for files. Search Box The Search box appears in the upper-right corner of Windows Explorer. When you type in the Search box, Windows Explorer dynamically performs a search of the current folder and all subfolders looking for files that match the term you have typed. For example, if you type “inv” in the Search box, all files that begin with “inv” or have metadata beginning with “inv” are displayed. Search Folder The Search folder is useful when you don’t know the location of a file or you want to search multiple locations. To find files in multiple locations, the Search folder performs searches on the index files location by default. This location represents the index that can be configured for searching and includes all the locations and file types configured to be indexed. 14 Session 2: User Productivity Enhancements in Windows Vista Complex search queries can be created in the Search folder by searching for particular properties and combining multiple search clauses together using the logical operators AND and OR. For example, you could search for all files authored by yourself AND modified in the last 7 days. Start Menu There is a Search box located at the very bottom of the Start menu. When you enter a term in this Search box, Windows Vista automatically searches for programs and Microsoft Internet Explorer® favorites in the index. Session 2: User Productivity Enhancements in Windows Vista 15 Demonstration 3: Performing Searches In this demonstration, you will see how you can: • Use the Search box. • Use the Search folder. • Search from the Start menu. Key Points The key points of this demonstration are: • There are multiple ways to search for files and folders. 16 Session 2: User Productivity Enhancements in Windows Vista What Is Metadata? Metadata is information about a file rather than the contents of a file. For example, metadata about a document can include the author, creation data, and last edited date. Sometimes metadata is referred to as the properties of a file. Windows Vista includes metadata in searches. If files are indexed, metadata is included as part of the indexing process. The metadata collected varies for particular file types. For example, pictures taken with a digital camera include information about lighting conditions, shutter speed, and other information that is not relevant to a Microsoft Office Word document. To customize the metadata that is collected for a file, Windows Vista stores tags for all file types. Tags are keywords you can add to a file that are searchable. For example, you can label all of the documents related to a particular project with the name of that project. Home users can add tags to their digital photos describing which vacation they were taken on. After tags are added to a file, you can search for files based on those tags. Session 2: User Productivity Enhancements in Windows Vista 17 What Are Saved Searches? Windows Vista includes a new feature called saved searches to make finding your data easier. A saved search appears as a folder in Windows Explorer. The contents of the folder are the results of a search. Earlier versions of Windows Vista referred to saved searches as virtual folders. You can create your own custom saved searches, but some commonly used searches exist by default. The default saved searches cannot be changed. The default saved searches are: • Attachments • Favorite Music • Fresh Tracks • Important E-mail • Indexed Files • Last 7 Days E-mail • Last 30 Days Documents • Last 30 Days Pictures and Videos • Recently Changed • Shared By Me • Unread E-mail 18 Session 2: User Productivity Enhancements in Windows Vista Demonstration 4: Creating a Saved Search In this demonstration, you will see how you can: • Add tags to files. • Create a saved search. Key Points The key points of this demonstration are: • Tags can be added to any file and used in searching. • You can create saved searches that behave like folders. [...]...Session 2: User Productivity Enhancements in Windows Vista 19 Productivity Utilities Introduction Windows Vista includes new utilities to enhance user productivity Windows Vista supports Peer Name Resolution Protocol and People Near Me as infrastructure services to find peers for peer-to-peer networking Windows Meeting space takes advantage of People Near Me to invite participants to collaborative... accuracy 20 Session 2: User Productivity Enhancements in Windows Vista What Are the Windows Vista Collaboration Technologies? Peer-to-peer networking is a powerful tool for business and consumers The main benefits of peer-to-peer networking for collaborative applications are massive scalability and reliability In a peer-to-peer network, all communication is performed directly between two client computers... local subnet Session 2: User Productivity Enhancements in Windows Vista 23 What Is Windows Meeting Space? Windows Meeting Space (formerly Windows Collaboration) is a peer-to-peer collaboration application that allows up to 10 people with Windows Vista systems to remotely work together as if they were in the same room To locate other participants on the local network, Windows Meeting Space uses People Near... Productivity Enhancements in Windows Vista 25 Improvised Collaboration With a portable computer that is capable of wireless networking, you can perform improvised collaboration anywhere For example, you could meet a colleague at a coffee shop and collaborate on the creation of a document  26 Session 2: User Productivity Enhancements in Windows Vista Demonstration 6: Using Windows Meeting Space In this... will see how you can: • Use Windows Meeting Space Key Points The key points of this demonstration are: • Windows Meeting Space can be used to collaborate • People Near Me can be used to find other participants for Windows Meeting Space Session 2: User Productivity Enhancements in Windows Vista 27 What Is Speech Recognition? Speech Recognition is a system built into Windows Vista so that you can use... e-mail invitation or a file invitation By using Windows Meeting Space, you can: • Share your desktop or any program with other session participants • Distribute and co-edit documents on each others computers • Pass notes to other participants • Connect to a network projector to give a presentation 24 Session 2: User Productivity Enhancements in Windows Vista Windows Meeting Space Scenarios Windows Meeting... find other users to collaborate with The primary collaboration application shipped with Windows Vista is Windows Meeting Space, the successor to Microsoft NetMeeting® A user can also send an invitation without first opening the application, by referencing it with a GUID Peer Name Resolution Protocol The Peer Name Resolution Protocol is not configured by users in any way It is a protocol that can be used... meetings Speech Recognition is also included and can increase productivity for poor typists and people with motor impairment Objectives After completing this section, you will be able to: • Describe Windows Vista collaborative technologies • Describe Windows Meeting Space • Understand how Windows Meeting Space can be used • Describe Speech Recognition • Understand how to improve Speech Recognition accuracy... underlying infrastructure required to find and connect with peers, but on a much larger scale To achieve the scalability required by PNRP, Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is used The larger address space of IPv6 allows each application on each computer in the peer-topeer network to be uniquely identified with its own IPv6 address However, IPv6 is not supported on most corporate networks or the Internet... projector Windows Meeting Space can be used to display and edit project documents At the same time, participants can be on the phone talking about the documents If all participants are on the same subnet, People Near Me can be used to perform all of the invitations Multiple-Site Collaboration In multiple-site organizations, travel between locations for meetings is a drain on time and productivity Windows . Session 2: User Productivity Enhancements in Windows Vista 19 Productivity Utilities Introduction Windows Vista includes new utilities to enhance user productivity. Windows Vista supports Peer. search for files and folders. 16 Session 2: User Productivity Enhancements in Windows Vista What Is Metadata? Metadata is information about a file rather than the contents of a file. For. metadata collected varies for particular file types. For example, pictures taken with a digital camera include information about lighting conditions, shutter speed, and other information that is not