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It's really silly how much better Fast tiny 3rd party programs like everything search so much faster than windows search

I personally gave up on GUI file searching a long ago, it's one thing that sucks everywhere IMHO. I'll take CLI tools like locate or `fd` any day, they are IMHO quicker to use even on Windows.

Just use Everything (https://www.voidtools.com/), so much better than Windows Search.

The latest version supports searching file contents now, though it's slow because the contents isn't indexed.

my favorite FOSS goto for searching contents in Windows is AstroGrep - https://astrogrep.sourceforge.net

It doesn’t seem to index either, though?

I normally use Notepad++’s Find in Files feature, which covers most cases, and also supports replacing.

How many years and counting and MS still can't make search work? So much comments about how search is screwed up. For me I can't stand it sometimes doesn't find that I know there is. Or sometimes I don't really know that something is or is not there because I can't trust the search. And sometimes it just wont search. Or does it really slowly