I’ve often been underwhelmed by the performance of the built-in Windows Search utilities, particularly for simple searches like finding filenames containing a specific string.
That led me to search for something better. Years ago I found one that suits my need perfectly, “Everything” by voidtools http://voidtools.com/
After install, it creates a small index and returns results fast. When they say it’s instant, they weren’t exaggerating.
One of the useful options is to enable it on a Web interface (on the port of your choosing) so you can search remotely. Mapped network drives can be indexed also.
What everything doesn’t do is search for strings/content inside files. SO if you were looking for a document with a particular word in it. For this I use grepwin
https://sourceforge.net/projects/grepwin/
This allows context search and replaces as well as the ability to use regex’s.
Hi Brett, great tip. I cannot live without ditto clipboard manager, greenshot – save region/repeat last selection screenshot by key shortcuts to clipboard and folder automatically and RoyalTS (manager of remote connection with automatic key sequences and tasks). Filip
getgreenshot.org/
ditto-cp.sourceforge.net
https://www.royalapplications.com/ts/win/features – I bought as my first application
Hi Brett, great tip. I cannot live without ditto clipboard manager, greenshot – save region/repeat last selection screenshot by key shortcuts to clipboard and folder automatically and RoyalTS (manager of remote connection with automatic key sequences and tasks). Filip
getgreenshot.org/
ditto-cp.sourceforge.net
https://www.royalapplications.com/ts/win/features – I bought as my first application