The best File Search alternative to Explorer++ is Total Commander, which is free. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Explorer++ and 19 are File Search Utilities so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting File Search Utility alternatives to Explorer++ are Files, OneCommander, FreeCommander and XYplorer.
Explorer++ alternatives are mainly File Managers, but if you're looking for
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Explorer++ is faster and consumes much less memory. Files advertises itself as lightweight, but 100MB for displaying a tree structure is not lightweight.
Files looks closer to modern Windows, but so does Windows Explorer which we are looking to replace.
Files looks like an "app" which means that I cannot understand if it's the active window or not because it doesn't use accent colors on its title bar.