Folks, we figured it’s high time we brought back an oldie but a goodie. In the age of “everything AI”, you can be almost sure that AI search engines for your PC are everywhere. My gut feeling is that when AI is everywhere, our security and privacy are nowhere to be found except in the empty promises of money-hungry AI captains trying to convince you that AI is the best thing to happen to he world since the Internet. Well, look how that’s turning out!<\/span><\/p>\n As far as I know \u2014 or for as long as I can remember, at least \u2014 Windows has always had a search feature. It\u2019s not always been particularly good. And it\u2019s certainly not the fastest. In Windows XP and Vista, the Windows search feature was not very good and certainly not very fast. Windows 7 brought some improvements. Windows 10 and Windows 11 continued to improve the search feature. But Windows search is still not as fast as it should be, not as thorough as it could be, and not as fast as Everything Search \u2013 a free search program for Windows 10 and Windows 11.<\/span><\/p>\n Everything Search<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Everything is not new; it\u2019s been around for a long time. We\u2019ve featured it before, but that was a couple of years ago. But seriously, it\u2019s so good and so fast, it deserves mention.<\/span><\/p>\n Everything is made by Voidtools. The developer, David Carpenter, is so sure you\u2019ll like Everything search, he is willing to put his name and his email address on the Everything website \u2013 and that says a lot about the program and the developer.<\/span><\/p>\n A few days ago, we decided to check it out again. \u2018And once again, we found Everything Search to be exceptional. It is an amazingly fast and thorough search engine for Windows. It makes it easy to find whatever you\u2019re looking for on your computer.<\/span><\/p>\n I did a couple of quick tests. And Everything produced great search results instantly. We looked for all files on my laptop with the \u201cwhite.mid\u201d in their names in the first test. Everything found, well, everything with \u201cwhite.mid\u201d in its name in the blink of an eye.<\/span><\/p>\n Let\u2019s see if Everything can find \u201cIce Castles\u201d, one of my favorite midis from our stationery days. You can even change the view from Details to Icon views and more.<\/span><\/p>\n And in another test, I just looked for all PDF files on my laptop. I have PDF files on this old laptop going back to 2013. I have saved quite a few in the last eight years. To find them all, I used the wildcard * (that is, *.PDF) to search for all PDF files. In less than 2 seconds, it found every PDF file on my laptop \u2013 and there are a whole lot of them. The search results can be ordered by name, date, type, etc. Below you can see Everything showing all PDF files on my laptop (some going all the way back to 2013) by name.<\/span><\/p>\n So, with our tests completed successfully, it\u2019s time to bring in David Carpenter, the developer of Everything, to answer your questions:<\/span><\/p>\n What is \u201cEverything\u201d?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n \u201cEverything\u201d is a search engine that locates files and folders by filename instantly for Windows.<\/span><\/p>\n Unlike Windows search, \u201cEverything\u201d initially displays every file and folder on your computer (hence the name \u201cEverything\u201d).<\/span><\/p>\n You type in a search filter to limit what files and folders are displayed.<\/span><\/p>\n How long will it take to index my files?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n \u201cEverything\u201d only indexes file and folder names and generally takes a few seconds to build its database.<\/span><\/p>\n A fresh install of Windows 11 (about 120,000 files) will take about 1 second to index.<\/span><\/p>\n 1,000,000 files will take about 1 minute.<\/span><\/p>\n Does Everything search file contents?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Yes, \u201cEverything\u201d can search file content with the content search function.<\/span><\/p>\n File content is not indexed, and searching content is slow.<\/span><\/p>\n Does \u201cEverything\u201d hog my system resources?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n No, \u201cEverything\u201d uses very little system resources.<\/span><\/p>\n A fresh install of Windows 10 (about 120,000 files) will use about 14 MB of ram and less than 9 MB of disk space.<\/span><\/p>\n 1,000,000 files will use about 75 MB of ram and 45 MB of disk space.<\/span><\/p>\n Does \u201cEverything\u201d monitor file system changes?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Yes, \u201cEverything\u201d does monitor file system changes.<\/span><\/p>\n Your search windows will reflect changes made to the file system.<\/span><\/p>\n Is \u201cEverything\u201d free?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Yes, \u201cEverything\u201d is Freeware.<\/span><\/p>\n Please consider donating.<\/span><\/p>\n Does \u201cEverything\u201d contain any malware, spyware or adware?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n No, \u201cEverything\u201d does not contain any malware, spyware or adware\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n If you want to read more about Everything, visit this page.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Everything is available for download as a portable app or with an installer. It\u2019s available in 32-bit and 64-bit versions.\u00a0If you\u2019re looking for a faster, better way to find files on your Windows PC, give \u201cEverything\u201d a try. It\u2019s fast, free, and it\u2019s not bundled with anything else, and it contains no malware or badware. And you\u2019ll be happy to know the author does not play whack-a-mole with the download links.<\/span><\/p>\n You can download Everything from this page.\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n You\u2019ll have several installation options to choose from. If you\u2019re an advanced user, you can modify these however you wish. If you\u2019re not an advanced user or you are a minimalist like us, just install Everything as it comes. It works great right out of the box, as they say.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n And should you have any questions or problems, David Carpenter puts his name and email address on the Everything website<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Search Your Computer Faster With Everything Folks, we figured it’s high time we brought back an oldie but a goodie. In the age of “everything AI”, you can be almost sure that AI search engines for your PC are everywhere. 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