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Chapter 5 Managing Files and Searching

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Stacked files behave like folders, so you can open up the stacked file and see what’s inside. So

what’s the big deal? Stacks are a quick way to collect content that meets your criteria and put

them all in one place. And stacks have no physical location on your computer, so they don’t

take up space on your computer as a folder does—stacks are just another representation of

your content based on your filter criteria.

Windows Vista also allows you to group files by the criteria listed by the filter. For example,

if you group files by name, Computer or Windows Explorer will group all the files by file-

name starting ...