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introduce

This old software, I think most of you who have used Windows have heard of it, the famous search engine Everything.

It is a free file retrieval tool developed by David Carpenter from Australia. Since its inception, it has been popular with many users due to its small memory footprint and fast search. It is a necessary efficient tool for office workers.

It through direct access to THE NTFS disk MTF table to provide us with a very fast search speed, file search efficiency is very high.

As we all know, Windows own search that is quite unnecessary, search along while also calculate, sometimes clearly have, also search not to come out.

Everything achieves the search function to a very high level. Both the search speed and accuracy are far higher than the system’s native search. The software supports shortcut keys to call the search window and integration into the context menu of Resource Manager, so that users can quickly obtain the search bar.

Function is introduced

Everything has so many advantages

  • Clean and simple user interface
  • Quick file index
  • Quick search
  • Quick start
  • Minimal resource usage
  • A small database on disk
  • Updated in real time

My own solid-state drive search was surprisingly fast, much faster than Windows’ own file search. Very small and resource-intensive, Everything searches only based on file and folder names, and it creates databases very quickly. It has been tested that a newly installed Windows XP SP2 system (about 20,000 files) takes only a second, and an index of a million files takes only a minute.

Someone online said: if I had to rate Everything, I would give it a 99! And the remaining 1 point is reserved for its new version.

Based on using

The simplest is the file search, directly open the main software, input keywords, we can see the results are updated in real time, if there are multiple keywords, we can use space to separate, this and Google and other search engines the same

Similarly, and search engine search advanced skills, if we have more detailed search needs, we can cooperate with some mathematical conditional statements and/or to achieve, of course, the general user is small white users, these basic use, there is a need in the reference link we detailed experience.

Advanced skills

Although Everything is only 2M, it still takes some effort to thoroughly study this software. Moreover, it has too many functions, such as advanced bookmarks, exclusion lists, and even plug-in systems.

reference

Efficient search magic Everything the most complete use of tips (a look at the full) and detailed function help tutorial (update 9) – Zhihu (zhihu.com)