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I've been using search for everything since Windows 7. Just have to remember the first 3-5 letters, or a word, and I could open any programs and folders/files. The windows key was my desktop, the actual desktop is blank and black.

Windows 10 has a messed up search, it shows useless (for me) stuff first, and never learns to prioritize results based on previous searches/keywords/accessed files. Maybe there's a way to fix that, that would be great.

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Have you tried Ueli? Has been working great for me: https://ueli.oliverschwendener.ch/

Wox and keyperinha are 2 more alternatives (wox with more plugins but less maintained). Both integrate "everything" for filesearch (it's a pity they don't use the 100 times faster WizFile)

I use keypiranha as well. Great tool!

> it's a pity they don't use the 100 times faster WizFile

100 times faster? Everything is instant for me, never had any kind of delay. What things are slow enough with it that something else could be faster?

Indexing. Everything traverses your folders to find everything and make an index from that, WizFile reads this from some hard drive tables directly.

So the first indexing with everything takes maybe 30 minutes or more (I actually have no Idea how long it took exactly..) and wizfile is done in under a minute. With slower drives (e.g. external USB2) the difference should be even more dramatic.

The only downside appart from missing integrations is that it doesn't support full regex.

Ah, okay, that makes sense. Thanks. That means for me everything is the better tool (I sometimes use regex and I never need to index usb drives)

JFYI, SwiftSearch has Regex functons and it is (on NTFS of course) as fast as a search tool can be:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/swiftsearch/?source=dlp

I don’t think that’s true. Everything takes ~20 seconds to index my machine. I think Everything reads NTFS file table directly. Maybe you didn’t give it Admin privileges?

Ooops, I think you are right!

Here is where I mixed up things: WizTree does what WinDirStat does, but here it's really quicker.

Looks good, I'll try it, thank you!

I always feel like MS broke the search menu on Win10 on purpose. They begrudgingly get back the start menu but kill most of its advantages and productivity to punish users.

I use Listary exactly for that. However I do keep the Windows key for programs, it seems to work well enough albeit not as fluid as Windows 7.

Exactly whatI've been trying to look for

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