Windows 8 file search utility

Here are Windows 8 keyboard combinations to access file and application search dialog boxes quickly. Naturally, each combination begins with the Windows key, which is next to the Ctrl.

Searching for Windows 8 files is quicker and faster than ever, especially if you take full advantage of Indexing. Article OR News. AND e. NOT e. Books NOT Pictures. Here are examples: Date:Last month Date:This week Date:Next year If you are trying to find a photograph try this: Datetaken:January Kind of File When I was looking for text documents in different formats, I stumbled across this option to search for file types: The keyword is Kind: Remember that colon: Search By Authors There are other keywords such as Authors that you could use for searching through files in mixed folders.

Windows 8 Save Search If you regularly search for a particular file pattern consider saving your search. About The Author Guy Thomas. A file's data remains allocated so long as at it has at least one file name referencing it. MoveFile Schedule file rename and delete commands for the next reboot. This can be useful for cleaning stubborn or in-use malware files.

PendMoves See what files are scheduled for delete or rename the next time the system boots. PsFile See what files are opened remotely. PsTools The PsTools suite includes command-line utilities for listing the processes running on local or remote computers, running processes remotely, rebooting computers, dumping event logs, and more.

SDelete Securely overwrite your sensitive files and cleanse your free space of previously deleted files using this DoD-compliant secure delete program. Especially after removing a program from the work station to find all the left overs. You provide windows links for all the other search utilities except for the one the article is about.

At the bottom you will see an item named landing Page. The link is just below that. The Landing Page is located a few lines below the Star rating of the program. However I will stick with the referenced Everything for my needs. In Windows, I use Everything to find files by name because of its unparalleled speed, and Agent Ransack to find files by content because of its easier user interface and to me simpler arguments.

Agent Ransack was just updated a few days ago for the first time in years. But File Search Utility looks like it might be worth trying as a substitute for Agent Ransack, so thanks for the heads-up, Martin! In other words, if I switched to Btrfs which apparently still has some performance downsides and edge-case problems , would I get much faster file searches with the right search utilities?

Double Commander, a cross-platform and open source file manager, has an excellent search feature. John Fenderson: Many thanks, John! My personal bent about things like this is one of caution, particularly when it comes to system-critical stuff like filesystems. What the fastest, easiest and most reliable program to find text inside files? WizFile instantly lists the files you want to explore. Search for files on your hard drive by name and get the results almost instantly.

In fact, we believe WizTree to be the fastest application of this type in the world! Everything does most of it for me but occasionally when well into a directory structure I using explorer I take the slow way and use Windows inbuilt search. BTW After a massive clean-up of one device Everything portable was not finding anything other than a repeated list of a single Outlook file.

Uh-oh indexing issue. Rather than try to solve it, I deleted the Everything directory, downloaded again and had it working very quickly. On the Mac, there are about a gazillion programs for finding stuff, some free. Most people just use the built-in Spotlight utility, which has a couple of different modes it can run in. Irrespective of hard disk size or partition sizes you might have created this utility works in super fast mode and lists files found along with the folder name with which you can easily identify the file you are looking for.

Given below screenshot displays main window of the Fast File Search Utility captured on a Windows 8 Computer and yes you can even use this file finder utility on your Windows 7, Vista and other versions of Microsoft Windows.