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Windows search has been broken for a _long_ time. Agent Ransack¹ is one of the first things I add to a fresh Windows install. Soon after some unix-a-like ports
by dspillett 3y ago
Windows search has been broken for a _long_ time. Agent Ransack¹ is one of the first things I add to a fresh Windows install. Soon after some unix-a-like ports go on too (usually via cygwin) so I can use find, grep, and friends. For filename based search on NTFS volumes, WizFile² is useful too as it scans the MTF instead of navigating the directory structure bit-by-bit which can be significantly faster no matter how modern your local drives are.
This is the main reason I don't bother even trying Bing – if they can screw up local file search this much, how useful can their global search really be?
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[1] https://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/ https://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/
[2] https://antibody-software.com/wizfile/ https://antibody-software.com/wizfile/
- inversetelecine 3y ago"Everything" is another good option, at least from my basic usage of it. https://www.voidtools.com/faq/#what_is_everything https://www.voidtools.com/faq/#what_is_everything
- newscracker 3y agoKeypirinha (a launcher) works well with Everything. Both are free. The former hasn’t been updated for a few years, but it still works for launching applications, performing quick calculations, currency conversion, etc. [1]: https://keypirinha.com/ https://keypirinha.com/
- autoexec 3y agoI might give that a try. When I need to search for a file on windows I've gone back to using using DIR /s <filename>