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re: Question about 'Get Find/Search to Look Where You Want'
Friday, May 2, 2003 at 11:36 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by John Miller
(1 messages posted)
I don't think anyone actually answered the original question. Why does xp take so
much longer than any other windows operating systems ever did? Did MS screw something
up in their search engine. A search on Windows 98 took less than 30 seconds while
on xp a similar search takes 10 minutes. ???????
On Sunday, December 8, 2002 at 3:01 pm, Brad Burg wrote:
>I have a question about Get
>Find/Search to Look Where You Want:
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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.)
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>(FYI: I have an XP operating system on a Dell PC)
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>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.)
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>(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.)
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>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.
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>(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?
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>Help!
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