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I switched away from this to Wizfile [0] and I really recommend it.

That plus Wiztree [1] as a replacement for Windirstat have made me a real fan of the devs.

[0] https://antibody-software.com/web/software/software/wizfile-...

[1] https://antibody-software.com/web/software/software/wiztree-...

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Care to write about why you prefer Wizfile over Everything?

Between Wiztree and Windirstat it's obvious as Windirstat is extremely slow.

I don't want to put Everything down because I still think it's a good app but anecdotally I have seen Everything using constant % CPU (I assume it was indexing search, and it wasn't a huge amount but still). This is across a few PCs I've put it on.

I believe Wizfile doesn't have an index as it does everything via the MFT so I don't even need to keep it running in the background at all times unless I want to quickly call up search. YMMV.

Their WizKey program looks like it might solve one of my biggest Windows frustrations after switching from the Mac. If it can reproduce the Mac's way of typing accented characters (eg Cmd-U followed by o to type ö) then I'll be buying it shortly.

https://antibody-software.com/web/software/software/wizkey-m...

I use the Japanese input method (from the language pack) to solve this. Wish I was joking, but when in hiragana input, you're still able to input words from a Romanji base, and entire English input in full width characters if you start you word with a capital. As the IME has to compensate for having multiple words from the same keystrokes in Japanese, with Roman characters, you get accented characters in the same menu.

I don't exactly see this as a great solution, but with my limited use, it surprises me that this is restricted to a CJK input

have you tried https://github.com/samhocevar/wincompose

I haven't tried that one, I'll add it to the list. So far I've been using AutoHotKey and a script I found somewhere, which mostly works, but is a bit awkward to setup.

This looks promising, thanks for the tip!

The "international English" keyboard adds a few shortcuts to help.

Does this support network locations? Mapping to a drive to make it work in everything works for some things but in general everything is pretty bad at non-physical and non-local drives.

Edit: Doesn't seem like it. The drive that I can add as a folder in Everything doesn't show up at all in WizFile

I'm not 100% sure as I don't search network locations, but from what I can see you can add Network-ed computers via Options -> Select Drives -> Add Folder.

I only have my own machine right now to test but searching seemed like it might work?

They don't show up at all, even the one that is mapped as a drive and works in everything.

They don't show up as normal folders in explorer.

Great suggestion. For those comparing Everything and Wizfile (which I just installed), it looks like Wizfile doesn't support regex whereas Everything does.

No UNC support, looks like.

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