Comments on: Portable Everything Makes File Searching Instant On Your PC

By: vvvlad

vvvlad — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 07:34:42 +0000

Does anyone know how to enable global hotkey to start Everything?

By: Abd Allah Diab

Abd Allah Diab — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 20:58:43 +0000

It is simply the best tool I’ve ever tested, a few days ago I was searching for some .h (C Header) files, and I could’t do it without Everything.

By: ali

ali — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 08:28:53 +0000

my OS is XP

By: David

David — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:27:55 +0000

I ditched Google desktop search for “Everything” and never looked back. Brilliant and blazingly fast. What hasn’t been mentioned is that you can do most of the “normal” file manipulations, i.e. open, delete, drag and drop into another program, right-click, etc; from within “Everything”, which makes life very easy if it turns up duplicates. It does, literally, index everything, incuding system files, if you want to go down that path, but be very careful! I use it a lot with .mp3 files, as well, to double-check that my back-ups are in place on two external drives. As an aside, I only found out that one of the drives (500 gig WE Elements) was pre-formatted to FAT (not sure why – for MAC use, as well?) when “Everything” wasn’t indexing stuff on it, as it only works with NTFS, so I converted that drive’s file system with no problem or data loss.

By: Karl L. Gechlik | AskTheAdmin.com

Karl L. Gechlik | AskTheAdmin.com — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:12:08 +0000

I am using the same version on Windows XP SP3 and also do NOT have any case-sensitive results. And I agree with Jarmo this was the expected results.

By: Karl L. Gechlik | AskTheAdmin.com

Karl L. Gechlik | AskTheAdmin.com — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:10:52 +0000

My results are NOT case sensitive. What is your OS and installed version of this application.

By: Jarmo

Jarmo — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:47:57 +0000

I’m using Everything 1.2.1.371. It does not seem to be case-sensitive, which is the appropriate behavior imo.

By: Ed

Ed — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:05:08 +0000

I also tried Copernic, Google Search and X1. My favorite is also X1 but I use Copernic now because there is a free version. I can’t justify the cost based on the added features.

By: Bart

Bart — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 08:06:30 +0000

Locate32 is software which can be used to find files from your harddrives and other locations. It works like updatedb and locate commands in Unix based systems. In other words, it uses databases to store information about directory structures and uses these databases in searches. The use of these databases provides very fast searching speed. The software includes a dialog based application as well as console programs which can be used to both update and access databases. Supported operation systems are Windows 98/ME/NT4/2000/XP/Vista.
http://www.locate32.net/content/view/14/26/

I swear to this one tho

By: Time Saving Tools

Time Saving Tools — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:11:49 +0000

The filename only approach is great if you remember the name of the file. But what if you only remember something that was IN the file? I have been a long-time user of indexed search tools, including Copernic and Google. My favorite remains the X1 tool (www.x1.com). It’s fast and it covers File names, file contents (including PDF and ZIP), Email, and Contacts. I don’t know how I ever lived without it.