It’s not a secret that the built-in search engine in Windows is just bad at it’s job. It’s slow (sometimes even horribly slow) and you often can’t find the file your looking for. I dislike it.
So, I have looked into better alternatives. And found a gem that I want to share with you.
Everything.
Everything is brilliant.
Everything, by voidtools, is a search tool for Windows. It’s easy to install, has a simple and clean interface, indexes quickly and it’s just brilliant in searching for file and folder names.
Everything has advanced search and also supports regex.
I wholeheartedly recommend Everything.
Everything can search file contents, but file content is not indexed so searching content is slow.
Links
Homepage: https://www.voidtools.com/.
Download: https://www.voidtools.com/downloads/.
If you want to try the software out without installing anything, download the ‘Portable Zip’.
Frequently asked questions: https://www.voidtools.com/faq/.
Support: https://www.voidtools.com/support/everything/.
The support covers a lot, very helpful when you need to know more about a certain part of the software.
Forums: https://www.voidtools.com/forum/.
If you need support, have suggestions or discovered a bug, you can get in touch here.