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Me too!

I believe when you open the folder in Explorer and search using the box in the top-right, it only searches that folder.

However, I did try searching for a variable name in my code (just like you suggested) but I only got the actual file and it seemed like search didn't return any results of files whose content matched my search. Plus I didn't see any way to show the advanced search pane that Vista has.

When you open a folder in Vista have you tried hitting the F3 key. I think that should open up the search function and it should be set on the current folder you had open. I could be wrong but I thought that's how it worked.

This overview is a bit less clear than the rest

WinFS has been dead for like 4 years and its tech ideas what put to use in other products, windows search however retains all the functionality it wanted to have aka instant search, filters, tags, network searching. etc. without the need for WinFS

On August 29, 2005,[11] Microsoft quietly made Beta 1 of WinFS available to MSDN subscribers. It worked on Windows XP, and required the .NET Framework to run. The WinFS API was included in the System.Storage namespace.[14] The beta was refreshed on December 1, 2005 to be compatible with version 2.0 of the .NET Framework.[15] WinFS Beta 2 was planned for some time later in 2006,[16] and was supposed to include integration with Windows Desktop Search, so that search results include results from both regular files and WinFS stores, as well as allow access of WinFS data using ADO.NET.[17]

However, on June 23, 2006, the WinFS team at Microsoft announced that WinFS would no longer be delivered as a separate product,[3] and some components would be brought under the umbrella of other technologies - like the object-relational mapping components into ADO.NET Entity Framework; support for unstructured data, adminless mode of operation, support for file system objects via the FILESTREAM data type, and hierarchical data[18] in SQL Server 2008, then codenamed Katmai,[19] as well as integration with Win32 APIs and Windows Shell and support for traversal of hierarchies by traversing relationships into later releases of Microsoft SQL Server;[18] and the synchronization components into Microsoft Sync Framework.[18] However, having a shared-schema storage system built into a future iteration of Microsoft Windows has not yet been ruled out.[18]

With that announcement, most analysts assumed that the WinFS project was being killed off. But in November 2006, Steve Ballmer said in an interview that WinFS is being actively developed but integration into the Windows codebase will come only after the technology has fully incubated. It was subsequently confirmed in an interview with Bill Gates and that Microsoft plans to migrate applications like Windows Media Player, Windows Photo Gallery, Microsoft Office Outlook etc to use WinFS as the data storage back-end.[20]

am i blind ?