Fast File Finder for Windows is a tool for quickly finding files by name

Voidtools Everything is my go-to for this, if anyone was thinking "I want to know what naikrovek is using to find files by name..."

Once upon a time, back in the Vista days, I was looking for a file. I knew the name of the file, and I typed it into the brand new Search Pane. I waited, and waited, and waited... Until I decided to run something along the lines of `tree / > files.txt`. The tree command completed, I opened the result in Notepad, and found my file in no time, meanwhile the Search Pane was still searching. I don't have a Windows around to run the experiment in 2022, so I ask: Has Search not improved since the Vista days?

BTW: Sumatra PDF by the same author is also worth checking.

Using "dir" on the Windows command line can do a simple search. It is on every Windows machine and easy to use. It is not the fastest but it can be useful. Amazing how few people know how to use it. Just type "help dir" from the Windows command line.

I&#x27;m looking for a working alternative to Albert or Rofi in Windows. It seems there are several dead projects like Cerebro that integrate with tools like Everything.<p>Crucially, it must be extensible so I can add domain specific plugins. Ideally I&#x27;d be able to reuse code between Windows and Linux, but I don&#x27;t see any cross platform ones, so maybe it&#x27;ll need shims.

What do y’all like for searching by file contents? For Windows and Linux?

I wonder if anybody else remembers Google Desktop?

My tool of choice:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;sharkdp&#x2F;fd" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;sharkdp&#x2F;fd</a>

Any Unix (including OSX) has &quot;find&quot; on the command line.

FYI mlocate works on Windows.<p>Never had a PC without locate updated and grep

DIR &#x2F;b &#x2F;s

My go to for this is Agent Ransack.

I&#x27;m using Listary. Very good.

locate32 already does this just fine, been using it for years

fascinating. Primarily use forfiles.exe or where.exe. Pwsh&#x27;s get-childitem is similarly as fast

Why doesn&#x27;t Microsoft do this themselves? They&#x27;ve larded up Windows with tons of worthless crap, so clearly they have a lot of time of their hands. Why not give the user something useful for once, something that OS X users have had for decades?<p>Is the company full of morons, or do they just not see what&#x27;s in it for them? That is, why bother helping the user if it won&#x27;t necessarily make them $$$?<p>Sad as they are, I find these little details fascinating. They really show how unimaginative and short-term oriented giant public tech companies often are.<p>Apple ruining the MBP in 2016, only to walk back pretty much everything they did 6 years later, is another great example.