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re: Question about 'Get Find/Search to Look Where You Want'
Monday, May 12, 2003 at 4:04 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Balu
(1 messages posted)
I've run WinME on my system for the longest time and have put off upgrading to XP
or Win2k because of the searching capabilities of 2k or XP but couldn't prolong it
any more. WinME would do a search of my 3 drives totalling 100MB partitioned in 2,
in about 30 seconds or so. Once the search was complete it would take 2 seconds if
I didn't close the original search page.
Win2k and XP are very slow in searching even with Indexing turned on. I am currently
doing a search for a file on my system and it hasn't finished yet. It is just not
inconvenient but down right ridiculus.
I finally found the file now but it is only on my D drive.
If anyone has a solution please give it up!
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.)
>
>(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.
>
>(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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