SwitchCase Posted June 18, 2012 Share Posted June 18, 2012 (edited) Do you have plenty of files on your hard drive and have trouble finding files? We'll worry no more as this free software will help you in find your files quickly. Here is a sample screenshot of the program: In this screenshot, I search for a file named "CountVowels". It is a program I made a few months ago. With Everything program, I don't have to search my file manually. I just run Everything and input the file name and results will be delivered in just seconds. So, there you go. File searching made easy. Here is the link for the software: http://www.voidtools.com/ Edited June 18, 2012 by SwitchCase Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Nathan Posted June 18, 2012 Administrators Share Posted June 18, 2012 So why would you use this vs using the built in Windows search? Windows search already has an index on everything as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHiLL Posted June 18, 2012 Share Posted June 18, 2012 That would be useful on Windows XP or earlier, but Windows Vista and 7 has it's own built-in indexing feature which does just that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Posted June 18, 2012 Share Posted June 18, 2012 So why would you use this vs using the built in Windows search? Windows search already has an index on everything as well. Not nessesarily. Windows will only index certain locations unless you tell it to do otherwise. Usually programfiles,your user folder, and anything attached to a library by default if I remember rightly. Nathan 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Nathan Posted June 18, 2012 Administrators Share Posted June 18, 2012 Not nessesarily. Windows will only index certain locations unless you tell it to do otherwise. Usually programfiles,your user folder, and anything attached to a library by default if I remember rightly. Ah ok wasn't aware of that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwitchCase Posted June 19, 2012 Author Share Posted June 19, 2012 So why would you use this vs using the built in Windows search? Windows search already has an index on everything as well. Windows Search is not enough. Its not that powerful. Try to install 'Everything' and compare the results with Windows Search. You'll be surprised by the results. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Nathan Posted June 19, 2012 Administrators Share Posted June 19, 2012 Windows Search is not enough. Its not that powerful. Try to install 'Everything' and compare the results with Windows Search. You'll be surprised by the results. Alright, I'll give it a try. Work with Windows 7 64-bit? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHiLL Posted June 19, 2012 Share Posted June 19, 2012 Windows Search is more than enough for the average user. The Start Menu items and user area are the most commonly used places. However if you want to search your entire system, then this is probably better. But if it works like Windows Indexing (where is scans the system and keeps tabs of where files are) then it may slow systems down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tosaytheleast Posted June 30, 2012 Share Posted June 30, 2012 Thanks for this! I am always getting trouble with finding documents for like school papers and windows search button do not really function so great for me so I think I will try this one out. Thanks for sharing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tetutato Posted July 1, 2012 Share Posted July 1, 2012 Yea I'll give this a try. I have my hard drive indexing off to save computer performance so this might prove useful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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