Everything

Everything is a must-have app that does what it says it does in a clear, simple, flexible and very efficient way. Anybody working with a large number of files spread out in multiple directories will find benefit in using Everything.

How to use it:

1. Say you're looking for a file called "My_presentation_20180101.pptx", but you can't remember where you saved it (or even if that's what it's really called).
2. Open Everything
3. Every file on your computer is shown in a list
4. Start typing a few letters, e.g. "prese"...
5. As you type, Everything will reduce the number of items shown in the list to match what you typed
6. If you can't remember whether you used underscores or spaces in the file name, add another search term, e.g. "presen 2018"
7. Again Everything will narrow the list to all files that match the word "presen" AND "2018"
8. You can also exclude terms. Say you don't want those files containing the word "media", add the "!" exclude search term, e.g. "presen 2018 !media"
9. Again the list narrows

Very useful. Instantaneous. Small memory footprint. Not processor intensive. Lots of options.

No it does not search inside files, nor does it claim to do so, nor do I need it too do so ; that would make it too heavy and slow for my use.

Thanks Everything!

@ Balicky 2013-03-24: If you have your files only on harddisks in your own local computer, where you have admin rights, the search-app "everything" is very OK for You. But if you often search files in much more and much bigger directories in very big company networks with more than 100 TB instead only 7 TB, stored on remote computers, where you have no admin-rights, then you will find nothing with everything. In this case you need Index Your Files, except the admins of the remote computers install "everything" on all remote directories you need for searches.