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




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:

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.)


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).

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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