Well I'm assuming you've already found the category button in VC but are looking for a way to not assign a category to each patch you create?
Then what I'm suggesting is you could create a personal library called Leads, another one called Pads, another Perc or whatever. Yes you are limited to 128 sounds per bank but that's a lot, and if you need more then name them Leads1, Leads2, etc.
Another thing you could do is just use the first two or four columns of a bank for a particular sound type, like Bank1 and the first two columns are bass, columns 3 & 4 are leads, columns 5 and 6 are pluck, etc. Bank 2 can be more of same or a different category of sounds. Or if you want all 128 slots for leads, the entire library becomes Leads1, second library becomes leads2, etc.
It just depends on whether you want to avoid the Virus way of assigning category to sounds (thought that was what you were looking for). If you ever get into pro sound design you will probably want to organize/categorize them using the standard provided by the software, but I like to just come up with whatever workflow is most intuitive to me right off the bat so often times I don't bother with that. With the VC software I just physically group bass together, leads together, etc in each custom bank so I can flip through them easily and select a different category with the mouse. A lot of that just comes down to individual work flow and how you think about finding things.
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