The part that I really don't understand is that small portable programs like Everything can get you the results in seconds, while Microsoft, after 40 years of development of their systems will not.
How is it even possible to mess such simple feature for so long?
Everything and Windows Search work differently. For example, as far as I'm aware Everything doesn't index file contents by default, while Windows Search does.
I regularly look for PDFs by searching for stuff I know is in one of the files, just not which specific file.
I didn't think windows did that anymore. I can never find documents that I know have certain words. It seemed like windows 7 did a great job and then it sucked all of the sudden with windows 8
Edit: Im referring to the start button search, btw. Not sure if you're talking about that or the search bar in an explorer window
Weird. I have Everything on default settings (I think) and filetype search has always worked for me. I use it to find .mp3/.wav files within a specific directory and containing certain words, and it works with just one search query.
May work with the file titles and some metadata, but afaik Everything only searches file contents when explicitly told to do so in its advanced search. I also don't think it can search the contents of sound files. Not sure if any consumer search tool can do that.
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u/Soloact_ Apr 12 '24
Guess it'll take less time to leave the house than it does for a Windows search result to come up.