[jacobwilliamroy]

I recently found out that you can prepend your search with "name:" and windows search will only match against filenames which is the behavior most users expect by default and much faster than whatever nonsense windows explorer search normally does. Example:

    name:search-term

[vulcan01]

Windows Explorer, IIRC (I don't use Windows anymore), searches the content and title of most(?) files.

[TeMPOraL]

It's not just search when the progress bar appears, though. Also when trying to enumerate contents of a folder - e.g. when you're accessing a networked resource, or one that may not be viewable with your privileges. You then get this bullshit progress bar that speeds through the first 3/4, and asymptotically approaches 100%.