Windows Search
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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.
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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 !
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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.
Agent Ransack was nice until Win7 when it lost the ability to integrate into Windows Exploror's right-click menu. Now I use Super Finder XT. It would be interesting to get the inside scoop on why MS thinks it has improved Windows Search when it clearly fails 99% of the time.
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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.
Bring Back Windows Search. Windows XP had a search option in the start menu that worked. When they moved it to the top right of the directory window with Windows Vista and Windows 7 it stooped working. Dose it still search all drives? No. Dose it search down all directories from the root directory? No. Only search for files in the displayed directory window and no sub-directories. Why? Dose it search for text in a file? No. And why dose it remove the displayed directory list of files and directories with the results of its search? Because they think it should be displayed in the same window. "indexing", what's that? There are no options when entering text as there was with search in Windows XP. I expect there must be some hidden menu in a directory windows menu as there is now no search window. At least we can still search using the Disc Operating System.
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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.
Agree. I don't know why there isn't someone at M$ who isn't in charge of making sure that stupid broken limping scrod like this is not ever ever released. I actually sometime use Visual Studio's Find in Files when I need to find stuff. Works pretty good, and you can also use regular expressions ... err... I mean IRRegular Expressions, as they do not use the standard regex syntax the rest of the world uses. (Another thing the VP in Charge of Suppressing Limping Scrod should have caught out). [Edit - I just did a search and replace of an IP address in over 2000 files using Visual Studio, and it worked like a charm.] YS
modified on Monday, October 4, 2010 6:47 PM
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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 beleive it still has search companion somewhere available if you want to search for all files.
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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 everything was in RAM from the windows "search", any search would be fast.. DOS or windows. Windows "search" ignores directories with certain magical names and files with names ending in certain magical strings, no matter what you tell it to do. This is probably why the DOS search found what the windows search couldn't. I just look at this kid of stupidiy as Microsoft's Programmer Job Security Initiative -- correcting Microsoft's stupidity = job security for bunches of us. FYI, just be glad you're not running Windows 7 -- they lobotomized search to the point it is pretty much useless. PJSI for the Cygwin team, I guess :)
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