Best Windows search replacement

It's no secret that Windows search is absolute garbage...

I used to use Locate32/Locate64 but I switched to Everything about a year ago and now I pretty much can't live without it...

It searches my 12.5mil files aross dozens of drives, including mapped network drives, in the time it takes me to type my query. Indexing is lightning quick, stays updated, and doesn't gobble up resources.

Additionally:

• Queries can use boolearn operators, regular expressions (RegEx), and much more.
  
• Ability to search offline/disconnected volumes using file lists, as well as network drives using folder indexing.
  
• In additional to loads of built-in customization options and features, it also includes a CLI (command-line interface), SDK (software development kit) and supports IPC (inter-process communication) so the sky's pretty much the limit on how you can use it.
  
• Optional FTP and/or HTTP support for searchingfiles (or even accessing them, if enabled) via a web browser or FTP client.
  

Oh, and it's free/open source and contains noadware/malware or other bullshit like that.

You can download it here: https://voidtools.com/

Thanks will try it and see. I use wox in replacement of windows search but will try your suggestion and weigh the two options up

I can only recommend Wox - https://github.com/Wox-launcher/Wox . It uses Everything, but for me it's more usable and accessible

First of all, you have 12.5 million files? Jesus christ

Very nice! I haven't heard of it until now. I've always used Lokeen which is also used by many big companies. It works really well even in really big structures.
https://lookeen.com/index.html

It's also the perfect tool to search for mails within MS Outlook!

I'm also using Everything it's portable light and fast

26-01-2019, 09:32 AM

Bassdrop Wrote: It's no secret that Windows search is absolute garbage...

I used to use Locate32/Locate64 but I switched to Everything about a year ago and now I pretty much can't live without it...

It searches my 12.5mil files aross dozens of drives, including mapped network drives, in the time it takes me to type my query. Indexing is lightning quick, stays updated, and doesn't gobble up resources.

Additionally:

• Queries can use boolearn operators, regular expressions (RegEx), and much more.
  
• Ability to search offline/disconnected volumes using file lists, as well as network drives using folder indexing.
  
• In additional to loads of built-in customization options and features, it also includes a CLI (command-line interface), SDK (software development kit) and supports IPC (inter-process communication) so the sky's pretty much the limit on how you can use it.
  
• Optional FTP and/or HTTP support for searchingfiles (or even accessing them, if enabled) via a web browser or FTP client.
  

Oh, and it's free/open source and contains noadware/malware or other bullshit like that.

You can download it here: https://voidtools.com/

i used voidtools called everything

Small installation file

Clean and simple user interface

Quick file indexing

Quick searching

Minimal resource usage

Share files with others easily

Real-time updating

Everything is my only "Go TO" tool in windows for anything I want to search. It is super fast, with live search. Anyone not having it installed on their PC is missing "convenience" big time.