Windows Search
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I've not encountered a more useless piece of bloat than Windows Search. I have never found anything I was looking for using it. I wanted to search for any and all files with XYZ anywhere in the name, so I tried Windows Search, and it found nothing, zilch. So I opened a DOS box and did dir *XYZ*.* /s and it came up with about 25 matches in 1/1000th the time it took Windows Search to say it found nothing. This is the kind of thing that makes me want to chuck the PC off the balcony.
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I've not encountered a more useless piece of bloat than Windows Search. I have never found anything I was looking for using it. I wanted to search for any and all files with XYZ anywhere in the name, so I tried Windows Search, and it found nothing, zilch. So I opened a DOS box and did dir *XYZ*.* /s and it came up with about 25 matches in 1/1000th the time it took Windows Search to say it found nothing. This is the kind of thing that makes me want to chuck the PC off the balcony.
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Bingo ;)
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I've not encountered a more useless piece of bloat than Windows Search. I have never found anything I was looking for using it. I wanted to search for any and all files with XYZ anywhere in the name, so I tried Windows Search, and it found nothing, zilch. So I opened a DOS box and did dir *XYZ*.* /s and it came up with about 25 matches in 1/1000th the time it took Windows Search to say it found nothing. This is the kind of thing that makes me want to chuck the PC off the balcony.
Richard Andrew x64 wrote:
Windows Search
It's rubbish.
Richard Andrew x64 wrote:
I have never found anything I was looking for using it.
It maintains an index of certain file types. It doesn't search for other file types. If you disable the index, it searches all files. Still, it may not be capable of searching certain file types (not sure about that).
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I've not encountered a more useless piece of bloat than Windows Search. I have never found anything I was looking for using it. I wanted to search for any and all files with XYZ anywhere in the name, so I tried Windows Search, and it found nothing, zilch. So I opened a DOS box and did dir *XYZ*.* /s and it came up with about 25 matches in 1/1000th the time it took Windows Search to say it found nothing. This is the kind of thing that makes me want to chuck the PC off the balcony.
Richard Andrew x64 wrote:
I've not encountered a more useless piece of bloat than Windows Search.
You got it right there. It amazes me that file explorer has been around for many years and instead of progressing into a leading edge tool it has digressed into a POS.
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote:
Windows Search
It's rubbish.
Richard Andrew x64 wrote:
I have never found anything I was looking for using it.
It maintains an index of certain file types. It doesn't search for other file types. If you disable the index, it searches all files. Still, it may not be capable of searching certain file types (not sure about that).
I always keep indexing off. I rarely need to search my system for things and I don't need the hard disk thrashing about while windows starts indexing everything because it feels I'm not busy enough. So what if I need to wait an extra 30 seconds to find that one file I need.
My current favourite word: Harsh!
-SK Genius
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I always keep indexing off. I rarely need to search my system for things and I don't need the hard disk thrashing about while windows starts indexing everything because it feels I'm not busy enough. So what if I need to wait an extra 30 seconds to find that one file I need.
My current favourite word: Harsh!
-SK Genius
I agree. No indexing for me either. :)
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I've not encountered a more useless piece of bloat than Windows Search. I have never found anything I was looking for using it. I wanted to search for any and all files with XYZ anywhere in the name, so I tried Windows Search, and it found nothing, zilch. So I opened a DOS box and did dir *XYZ*.* /s and it came up with about 25 matches in 1/1000th the time it took Windows Search to say it found nothing. This is the kind of thing that makes me want to chuck the PC off the balcony.
Once again I have to recommend Total Commander. :)
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote:
I've not encountered a more useless piece of bloat than Windows Search.
You got it right there. It amazes me that file explorer has been around for many years and instead of progressing into a leading edge tool it has digressed into a POS.
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Once again I have to recommend Total Commander. :)
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((λ (x) `(,x ',x)) '(λ (x) `(,x ',x))) The Scheme Programming Language – Fourth EditionHave you considered Directory Opus? http://www.gpsoft.com.au/Intro.html[^] and http://nudel.dopus.com/opus9/[^] I have no affiliation with GPSoft but I do recommend their Directory Opus File Manager which is highly customisable, has excellent search facilities and includes its own scripting language for making custom commands and functions. It's the first piece of software that gets installed on any of my Windows installations. If they had a Linux version, I wouldn't even bother with Windows at all.
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I've not encountered a more useless piece of bloat than Windows Search. I have never found anything I was looking for using it. I wanted to search for any and all files with XYZ anywhere in the name, so I tried Windows Search, and it found nothing, zilch. So I opened a DOS box and did dir *XYZ*.* /s and it came up with about 25 matches in 1/1000th the time it took Windows Search to say it found nothing. This is the kind of thing that makes me want to chuck the PC off the balcony.
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I've not encountered a more useless piece of bloat than Windows Search. I have never found anything I was looking for using it. I wanted to search for any and all files with XYZ anywhere in the name, so I tried Windows Search, and it found nothing, zilch. So I opened a DOS box and did dir *XYZ*.* /s and it came up with about 25 matches in 1/1000th the time it took Windows Search to say it found nothing. This is the kind of thing that makes me want to chuck the PC off the balcony.
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Once again I have to recommend Total Commander. :)
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((λ (x) `(,x ',x)) '(λ (x) `(,x ',x))) The Scheme Programming Language – Fourth EditionTwo thumbs up for Total Commander. Since I've learned to use it, I dumped windows explorer and all of its the related gui subtracts. Greetings from Greece
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I've not encountered a more useless piece of bloat than Windows Search. I have never found anything I was looking for using it. I wanted to search for any and all files with XYZ anywhere in the name, so I tried Windows Search, and it found nothing, zilch. So I opened a DOS box and did dir *XYZ*.* /s and it came up with about 25 matches in 1/1000th the time it took Windows Search to say it found nothing. This is the kind of thing that makes me want to chuck the PC off the balcony.
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I've not encountered a more useless piece of bloat than Windows Search. I have never found anything I was looking for using it. I wanted to search for any and all files with XYZ anywhere in the name, so I tried Windows Search, and it found nothing, zilch. So I opened a DOS box and did dir *XYZ*.* /s and it came up with about 25 matches in 1/1000th the time it took Windows Search to say it found nothing. This is the kind of thing that makes me want to chuck the PC off the balcony.
Richard Andrew x64 wrote:
I have never found anything I was looking for using it.
Windows search kind of works when you know how it works and either change the index or how you ask to get results, you shouldn't have to do this! Plus, you can't trust the results as it quite often misses results!
Richard Andrew x64 wrote:
So I opened a DOS box and did dir *XYZ*.* /s and it came up with about 25 matches in 1/1000th the time it took Windows Search to say it found nothing.
Same here, I use DOS or Visual Studio - always finds what I want.
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote:
I have never found anything I was looking for using it.
Windows search kind of works when you know how it works and either change the index or how you ask to get results, you shouldn't have to do this! Plus, you can't trust the results as it quite often misses results!
Richard Andrew x64 wrote:
So I opened a DOS box and did dir *XYZ*.* /s and it came up with about 25 matches in 1/1000th the time it took Windows Search to say it found nothing.
Same here, I use DOS or Visual Studio - always finds what I want.
same here, windows search.... don't find the file that i know is there..... Agent Ransack... finds more files than I thought was there. job done.
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I've not encountered a more useless piece of bloat than Windows Search. I have never found anything I was looking for using it. I wanted to search for any and all files with XYZ anywhere in the name, so I tried Windows Search, and it found nothing, zilch. So I opened a DOS box and did dir *XYZ*.* /s and it came up with about 25 matches in 1/1000th the time it took Windows Search to say it found nothing. This is the kind of thing that makes me want to chuck the PC off the balcony.
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I've not encountered a more useless piece of bloat than Windows Search. I have never found anything I was looking for using it. I wanted to search for any and all files with XYZ anywhere in the name, so I tried Windows Search, and it found nothing, zilch. So I opened a DOS box and did dir *XYZ*.* /s and it came up with about 25 matches in 1/1000th the time it took Windows Search to say it found nothing. This is the kind of thing that makes me want to chuck the PC off the balcony.
If all you need to do is find files (not search for content) then you really need the "Everything" search tool from voidtools: http://www.voidtools.com/[^]. There's also a portable version, if you don't want to have to install the app. The app is insanely fast when indexing the entire disk (took a couple of minutes on my system, to index 548.809 objects), yet the index file is tiny (2.68Mb). Searches are also near instantaneous (just typed "xyz" into the search box and found 50 (!) files with "xyz" in the name - and the search finished practically at the instant I typed the last letter :-) I've been using Everything for nearly 2 years now, and can't imagine life without it! HTH, John
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I've not encountered a more useless piece of bloat than Windows Search. I have never found anything I was looking for using it. I wanted to search for any and all files with XYZ anywhere in the name, so I tried Windows Search, and it found nothing, zilch. So I opened a DOS box and did dir *XYZ*.* /s and it came up with about 25 matches in 1/1000th the time it took Windows Search to say it found nothing. This is the kind of thing that makes me want to chuck the PC off the balcony.
I use
attrib /s *XYZ*and it is as fast asdir. Purpose ofattribis different, but it finds searched files. If you want to display folders useattrib /s /d *XYZ* -
I've not encountered a more useless piece of bloat than Windows Search. I have never found anything I was looking for using it. I wanted to search for any and all files with XYZ anywhere in the name, so I tried Windows Search, and it found nothing, zilch. So I opened a DOS box and did dir *XYZ*.* /s and it came up with about 25 matches in 1/1000th the time it took Windows Search to say it found nothing. This is the kind of thing that makes me want to chuck the PC off the balcony.
I always use the "Search Companion" when using windows search... I agree windows search sucks !
