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Even though I barely touch windows these days, when I do, I invariably use "everything" (http://www.voidtools.com/) to find where everything is. So fast, so minimalistic. It's like locate on crack (because it shows you stuff as you type and it automatically updatedb's).

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Windows 8.1 built-in search kind of makes this redundant.

no way windows search will ever replace Everything. Windows search is slow and it will not find whatever document you want 90% of the time.

Well, it's very-very fast in 8.1. I don't know why it does not find the document you want - it works quite well for me, YMMV obviously.

Have you used Everything?

It is instant file name search. I guess recent Windows could have improved file name searching, but it has classically been pretty bad.

Actually not really if you set up an index on C:\ it is quite fast, which is basically the main difference. But there is not one by default so you need to add it.

"will not find whatever document you want 90% of the time"

Absolute rubbish.

Apparently different people have different experiences. For me, it doesn't work about two thirds of the time.

Another upvote for Everything. The first thing I install.

I could never understand why MS didnt just purchase Everything and embed it within Windows. I've not tried win 8.1 search, but Everything is far faster/lighter/better than WinXP+7+8 search.

My only feature request for Everything is the ability to search inside Outlook msgs and Office docs.

I agree, this is the one little app I find indispensable.

Everything rocks, and it is being developed again, with some new features, Yay!

Do you know how it compares to the old Google Desktop search? I miss that...

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