Damn windows explorer search is broken since XP...
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Now in Windows 8 it's even more frustrating since its only half broken! Making it even more frustrating, you think it's gonna be helpful, you wait.... well if you got more than 1 potentially relevant results... it's a total mess to use.... :mad: I fall into their trap, I click on open in new window! But my hopes were soon crushed... it doesn't show the location, the location bar says....
Search Result > A fileYou dip shit... :mad:All in one Menu-Ribbon Bar DirectX for WinRT/C# since 2013! Taking over the world since 1371!
It is quite amazing you can search the world (Internet) easier than you can search your own desktop. I use c:\>findstr /I /S "text" (ignore case, search subs) if searching for file with certain text.
My book, Launch Your Android App, is available at Amazon.com.
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Now in Windows 8 it's even more frustrating since its only half broken! Making it even more frustrating, you think it's gonna be helpful, you wait.... well if you got more than 1 potentially relevant results... it's a total mess to use.... :mad: I fall into their trap, I click on open in new window! But my hopes were soon crushed... it doesn't show the location, the location bar says....
Search Result > A fileYou dip shit... :mad:All in one Menu-Ribbon Bar DirectX for WinRT/C# since 2013! Taking over the world since 1371!
Don't get Ron started again.
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It is quite amazing you can search the world (Internet) easier than you can search your own desktop. I use c:\>findstr /I /S "text" (ignore case, search subs) if searching for file with certain text.
My book, Launch Your Android App, is available at Amazon.com.
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Don't get Ron started again.
Haha! Please start! :laugh:
All in one Menu-Ribbon Bar DirectX for WinRT/C# since 2013! Taking over the world since 1371!
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It is quite amazing you can search the world (Internet) easier than you can search your own desktop. I use c:\>findstr /I /S "text" (ignore case, search subs) if searching for file with certain text.
My book, Launch Your Android App, is available at Amazon.com.
I am not a big fan of command lines! ;P But perhaps I could write a shell extension? Mm....
All in one Menu-Ribbon Bar DirectX for WinRT/C# since 2013! Taking over the world since 1371!
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Haha! Please start! :laugh:
All in one Menu-Ribbon Bar DirectX for WinRT/C# since 2013! Taking over the world since 1371!
Ultra File Search Lite. Done.
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Ultra File Search Lite. Done.
Hey! That was shorter than I anticipated! :laugh:
All in one Menu-Ribbon Bar DirectX for WinRT/C# since 2013! Taking over the world since 1371!
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Now in Windows 8 it's even more frustrating since its only half broken! Making it even more frustrating, you think it's gonna be helpful, you wait.... well if you got more than 1 potentially relevant results... it's a total mess to use.... :mad: I fall into their trap, I click on open in new window! But my hopes were soon crushed... it doesn't show the location, the location bar says....
Search Result > A fileYou dip shit... :mad:All in one Menu-Ribbon Bar DirectX for WinRT/C# since 2013! Taking over the world since 1371!
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Now in Windows 8 it's even more frustrating since its only half broken! Making it even more frustrating, you think it's gonna be helpful, you wait.... well if you got more than 1 potentially relevant results... it's a total mess to use.... :mad: I fall into their trap, I click on open in new window! But my hopes were soon crushed... it doesn't show the location, the location bar says....
Search Result > A fileYou dip shit... :mad:All in one Menu-Ribbon Bar DirectX for WinRT/C# since 2013! Taking over the world since 1371!
As an alternative to the other suggestions I'd like to add Total Commander[^]. The search abilities are outstanding, plus you get a whole lot of other stuff as well. Synchronizing directories, ftp client and a Multi rename tool are among the things I use.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
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As an alternative to the other suggestions I'd like to add Total Commander[^]. The search abilities are outstanding, plus you get a whole lot of other stuff as well. Synchronizing directories, ftp client and a Multi rename tool are among the things I use.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
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Now in Windows 8 it's even more frustrating since its only half broken! Making it even more frustrating, you think it's gonna be helpful, you wait.... well if you got more than 1 potentially relevant results... it's a total mess to use.... :mad: I fall into their trap, I click on open in new window! But my hopes were soon crushed... it doesn't show the location, the location bar says....
Search Result > A fileYou dip shit... :mad:All in one Menu-Ribbon Bar DirectX for WinRT/C# since 2013! Taking over the world since 1371!
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Works fine in Windows 10, finds the relevant files and takes me straight to them. Most odd, why would Microsoft want to make my life so easy?
Don't hasty! it's bad too! Let's say your first pick is unsatisfactory, you go back and... it searches again!!! Take like 1 minute each time (for me, in huge folder like program file or my whole programming folder), make it so painful to look at more than 1 result.... :mad: :((
All in one Menu-Ribbon Bar DirectX for WinRT/C# since 2013! Taking over the world since 1371!
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Don't hasty! it's bad too! Let's say your first pick is unsatisfactory, you go back and... it searches again!!! Take like 1 minute each time (for me, in huge folder like program file or my whole programming folder), make it so painful to look at more than 1 result.... :mad: :((
All in one Menu-Ribbon Bar DirectX for WinRT/C# since 2013! Taking over the world since 1371!
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It is quite amazing you can search the world (Internet) easier than you can search your own desktop. I use c:\>findstr /I /S "text" (ignore case, search subs) if searching for file with certain text.
My book, Launch Your Android App, is available at Amazon.com.
I ended up getting so frustrated with it that I wrote my own contents search that used one thread per CPU core and one for the GUI. Was much faster than the windows search (that didn't work anyway).
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Now in Windows 8 it's even more frustrating since its only half broken! Making it even more frustrating, you think it's gonna be helpful, you wait.... well if you got more than 1 potentially relevant results... it's a total mess to use.... :mad: I fall into their trap, I click on open in new window! But my hopes were soon crushed... it doesn't show the location, the location bar says....
Search Result > A fileYou dip shit... :mad:All in one Menu-Ribbon Bar DirectX for WinRT/C# since 2013! Taking over the world since 1371!
This[^] works remarkably well -- but, since it turned up, there are now a few more that work similarly on http://nonags.com[^]
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Sorry, not sure I understand what you are saying. I have never had a problem with Explorer searches from Windows 95 onwards. Maybe I'm just lucky and always find what I want first time.
Easy too emulate ... Let's say you have a "Dev" folder. with all the code you ever downloaded or write in research mode. Let say there was a day you did something cool with FilePicker for example. Then you search FilePicker on the huge directory. Usually there is like 278 matches and the search might take up to a minute... Are you telling me you never did such search? Or it is always instant for you? Or it always have one obvious single relevant result?! :omg:
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Easy too emulate ... Let's say you have a "Dev" folder. with all the code you ever downloaded or write in research mode. Let say there was a day you did something cool with FilePicker for example. Then you search FilePicker on the huge directory. Usually there is like 278 matches and the search might take up to a minute... Are you telling me you never did such search? Or it is always instant for you? Or it always have one obvious single relevant result?! :omg:
All in one Menu-Ribbon Bar DirectX for WinRT/C# since 2013! Taking over the world since 1371!
Super Lloyd wrote:
Let's say you have a "Dev" folder. with all the code you ever downloaded or write in research mode.
Unfortunately I don't, so I cannot emulate it. However I did just search my Visual Studio directory for a word that I knew existed in lots of source files and it came back (almost) instantly, with just under 100 finds.
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Super Lloyd wrote:
Let's say you have a "Dev" folder. with all the code you ever downloaded or write in research mode.
Unfortunately I don't, so I cannot emulate it. However I did just search my Visual Studio directory for a word that I knew existed in lots of source files and it came back (almost) instantly, with just under 100 finds.
Instantly hey? Mm.... Well it's not instant for me! :~ And every time I go back from a search result-record to the result pane.. it searches again... slowly... :((
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