Instant file search for windows

[Ali80]

Recently Linus, in one of his videos mentioned windows file search and how slow it is,

I've been using this 1 MB app called Everything for several years to search my files on windows, it indexes more that 3 Millions files on my laptop in less than 1 minute, and after that the search is instantaneous, also the index file is very small,
So how does Microsoft and Google (oh I remember Google Desktop and its awfully slow indexing), haven't figure this out when a small 1 MB free app can do this perfectly

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[Uptivuptiz]

Some things are indexed, like the downloads and documents folders. I guess the reason why they don't index the intire system is that if a normal non-techy user searched for something they would be bombarded with files they know nothing about. That's just my guess though...

[AbydosOne]

5 minutes ago, Ali80 said:

So how does Microsoft and Google (oh I remember Google Desktop and its awfully slow indexing), haven't figure this own when a small 1 MB free app can do this perfectly

 

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"Everything" is a filename search engine for Windows. (emphasis mine)

Because all Everything is doing it keeping track of only filenames. Windows search will peek inside files it understands (txt, doc, xls, some pdfs?) and indexes those, too. It has a lot more data to sift through to find things.

 

Notwithstanding, Win10 search does tend to miss more often than Win7's ever did for me.

[Ali80]

1 hour ago, Uptivuptiz said:

Some things are indexed, like the downloads and documents folders. I guess the reason why they don't index the intire system is that if a normal non-techy user searched for something they would be bombarded with files they know nothing about. That's just my guess though...

well, windows can exclude system files by default, also the windows search does search for everything but it is slow.

 

1 hour ago, AbydosOne said:

 

Because all Everything is doing it keeping track of only filenames. Windows search will peek inside files it understands (txt, doc, xls, some pdfs?) and indexes those, too. It has a lot more data to sift through to find things.

 

Notwithstanding, Win10 search does tend to miss more often than Win7's ever did for me.

windows does not search file content by default, the search algorithm used by windows is very slow and that is the real problem and is easy to fix

[Uptivuptiz]

2 minutes ago, Ali80 said:

also the windows search does search for everything but it is slow.

Yes, because it's not indexed.

[GoodBytes]

You also have this options in Windows 10:

[Ali80]

14 minutes ago, GoodBytes said:

You also have this options in Windows 10:

yes, the option is there, but the implementation is bad, it is very slow and produces large index files, uses too much cpu, even then Everything is much faster

[homeap5]

So you want search index everything including content and small index file at the same time?