[anotheryou]

Indexing. Everything traverses your folders to find everything and make an index from that, WizFile reads this from some hard drive tables directly.

So the first indexing with everything takes maybe 30 minutes or more (I actually have no Idea how long it took exactly..) and wizfile is done in under a minute. With slower drives (e.g. external USB2) the difference should be even more dramatic.

The only downside appart from missing integrations is that it doesn't support full regex.

[Semaphor]

Ah, okay, that makes sense. Thanks. That means for me everything is the better tool (I sometimes use regex and I never need to index usb drives)

[jaclaz]

JFYI, SwiftSearch has Regex functons and it is (on NTFS of course) as fast as a search tool can be:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/swiftsearch/?source=dlp

[drewkett]

I don’t think that’s true. Everything takes ~20 seconds to index my machine. I think Everything reads NTFS file table directly. Maybe you didn’t give it Admin privileges?

[anotheryou]

Ooops, I think you are right!

Here is where I mixed up things: WizTree does what WinDirStat does, but here it's really quicker.