Comments on: Everything – fast and powerful file search utility

By: Rarst

Rarst — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 16:16:20 +0000

@Joseph Yeah, Vista is not really known for good search implementation. When it just came out disabling search indexing there was almost mandatory to get computer moving.

By: Joseph

Joseph — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 08:27:40 +0000

This is a really nice tool. I downloaded it after I tried getting Vista’s search to delete all files with (1) in it’s name in a certain folder for an hour… Amazingly fast.

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Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:41:17 +0000

[...] It is not inferior to similar utilities, but comparing to those that make use of indexing (like Everything) it definitely feels [...]

By: Rarst

Rarst — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:13:05 +0000

@DataRat

I remapped Win+F to Everything with qliner hotkeys. Really convenient.

By: The DataRat

The DataRat — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:47:38 +0000

My experience with XP indexing is the same as your’s. But on Vista
have found it works well without slowing either the search or the
machine down.

Only thing: As mentioned, the default indexing isn’t inclusive of
your entire hard drive. This can be changed, but Microsoft ~doesn’t~
recommend it. I changed the defaults so that Vista also indexes
Program Files. Haven’t noticed the slightest slowdown having done so.

Vista searches with indexing are faster than XP searches with indexing
turned off. This on laptops with 5200-rpm hard drives and 2-gHz CPU.
( My main machine is a 64-bit Dell with 4-gigs of RAM. )

But, again, Everything is superior. I only use the Vista search box
for it’s convenience …being quickly available in the task bar or an
Explorer window.

The DataRat

By: Rarst

Rarst — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:24:57 +0000

@DataRat

Well, I heard plenty of bad things about indexing in Vista as well. No personal opinion, XP user here.

I’ve tried Google Desktop but it was also heavy on resources and I didn’t like results much. It is most interesting for distributed search over local network.

By: The DataRat

The DataRat — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 04:55:05 +0000

The Vista-haters can say what they want, but indexing in XP actually
SLOWS DOWN the search utility ! Microsoft drastically improved search
in Vista. Indexing isn’t a negative in Vista like it has been in XP.

That said, Everything is fantastic.

For starters: Default indexing on Vista doesn’t include much of the
hard drive’s contents (e.g., Program Files). Whereas, Everything
includes …well, everything !

Plus you can perform some boolean search.

Google Desktop search has some interesting and useful features.
And, as mentioned, Microsoft dramatically improved Vista’s native
search over XP’s. Yet neither are as good as Everything !

The DataRat

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Best | Rarst.net — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:20:45 +0000

[...] Everything – redefines file search. Lightning speed and powerful filtering improve file managing as much as inventing file managers itself did in the past. [...]

By: Rarst

Rarst — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 18:29:58 +0000

@Iggi

It could as well rip time-space continium. :) Tricks that go into software that beats competition by giant margin are usually too boring for end-user.

Anyway Everything is great example of what is possible when stepping out of generic realm.

By: Iggi

Iggi — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 18:15:53 +0000

“However I have no idea what kind of magic they used but it is blazing fast.”
That is a special street magic and also reason why it is locked to NTFS only. It reads NTFS structures in bulk into memory and then parses them.