>I have a question about Get 
>Find/Search to Look Where You Want:

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>
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>I spend a huge amount of time looking for the files I have to work on, on my hard 
>drive--because the Microsoft built-in "search" function is both slow and  clumsy. 
>Isn't there a good utility that searches for files really rapidly? (If the whole 
>internet can be searched in 2 seconds or so, why does searching my hard drive take 
>so long?...I think it must be a bit smaller than the internet.)
>
>(FYI: I have an XP operating system on a Dell PC)
>
>I should explain the details:
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>1. I have files mostly well-organized in folders. But I work on a lot of different 
>projects, with hundreds (thousands? I dunno) of files. And even when I  know where 
>certain file are, by the time I "drill down"  to find the ones I have to work on, 
>it takes forever. I'm looking for a program to which I can say, for example, "find 
>files with HISTORY in the name" -- and which will then find them all, fast. (i.e., 
>within 4 or 5 seconds.)
>
>(I know about "saving searches" and I've used that option, but I wind up with a 
lot 
>of saved searches, and then I spend time keeping track of those. So it's just more 
>housekeeping. I want a utility that will just do any requested search, fast.)
>
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>2. I also do have most of my files well-named for searching...if the search engine 
>were just fast enough (the Microsoft one takes forever.)
>
>3. The utility I'm hoping to find would look through file names WITHOUT the need 
>for indexing. That way, when I've just created a bunch of new files, they'll show 
>up in a search immediately--which is what I need. And since I'd only be searching 
>file names (most of the time) and not text, that search should be very fast.
>
>(More on indexing: Because my files are mostly named with a search in mind, ass 
in 
>point #2, I don't really need to search for (or through) the text WITHIN files very 
>often. That's why I can generally avoid using a program that depends on indexing. 
>Of course, if I find one I like, I'd run it every few days, I suppose. But I definitely 
>and continually need the other kind of  file search, all day long).
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>Can I be the only person around who needs to search for file names often? That seems 
>impossible...so then there must be such a utility... no?
>
>Help! 
>

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