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19-Aug-2009, 03:50 PM #1
Handy and speedy search
One of my complaints about Windows 7 has been that a folder search if "click intensive" to use and slow too boot unless you index the whole system. In searching for an alternative, I ran across the Everything Search Engine, which fills the bill just fine.

This is a VERY fast file/folder search, and while it does build small indexes, they build very quickly and don't consume much space, unlike many other search capabilities, including Windows 7's search.

Limitations are it doesn't search content, and it doesn't work for network drives. That's no problem for what I need, and this thing is pretty slick!
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21-Aug-2009, 05:21 AM #2
does it integrate with instant search?
or is it separate such as google desktop
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21-Aug-2009, 05:48 AM #3
Well i never used Windows 7 but there might be an option where you can set up the serch on the limited devices right? Like designating a certain Hard drive then do the search only in that drive.
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21-Aug-2009, 10:06 AM #4
Everything is a separate facility, but it's VERY fast and works like magic.

The search on Windows 7 is very cumbersome, at least for me. In addition, sometimes it appears to just decide that I really don't need the results if it's not found in the indexed locations. Since indexing the whole disk is VERY time consuming and also eats a lot of space, I don't choose to go that route.
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