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Windows Search. Twenty years have passed and every computer I have ever used (including every Microsoft Surface device) has become unusable when Windows Search
by nailer 5y ago
Windows Search. Twenty years have passed and every computer I have ever used (including every Microsoft Surface device) has become unusable when Windows Search Indexer runs.
- IIsi50MHz 5y agoWindows Search Indexer needs to die in a fire. Windows Search's default refusal to search various logical places for an EXE or DLL blows, and it's complete inability to filter a folder's small filelist to just the one relevant file without running a spinner animation and making you wait seconds is dainbramage. VoidTools Everything finds filenames instantly as I type, using the NTFS filesystem data instead of batch-scanning like Windows Search does. It optionally index NTFS drives across the network. It won't search inside files, and it has a few little things that annoy me (like no obvious keyboard way to switch filetype filters), but overall, I wish it were the default search.