Windows Search is awesome, now. I have everything pretty organized in its own subfolder of a subfolder of a subfolder in a folder in a drive, but most of the time, especially if I don't have a desktop shortcut listed to the file, it's much quicker to just open up the start menu, type the first 3-5 letters in the search box, and pick from the drop down.
That said, I've also found the find feature within folders works very well. Bring up a list of images from a camera, for example, and I can search by "kris" to get all the pictures for "Kristen" to pop up. Cut, paste into new folder. No CTRL, SHIFT, or CTRL+SHIFT, etc.
I dunno. Maybe it will make it faster, but it's damn fast as it is....