[clockwork-dev]

Haven't tried this one, thanks. There's also Everything [0] which is usually my favorite search for Windows. Fast and supports regex.

[0] https://www.voidtools.com/

[rococode]

Everything search is incredible, for me it serves nearly instant searches for 15TB+ of data without any trouble. I think the secret sauce is a background service which continuously updates the file index.

I also like WinDirStat a lot for Windows file management, which is not really for search but gives a great view of disk usage.

[delta_p_delta_x]

> I think the secret sauce is a background service which continuously updates the file index

Actually, the secret sauce to both WizTree's and Everything's speed is the NTFS Master File Table (MFT) [1].

[1]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/maste...

[hackrnusr]

Is there an open source analog of voidtools Everything yet?

Have never been able to find anything.

[kid64]

There's this, which I haven't tried: https://github.com/ChrisS85/FastFileSearch

SwiftSearch is excellent and uses the same tech: https://sourceforge.net/projects/swiftsearch/

[pynappo]

I've seen flow launcher recommended but haven't personally tried it out yet

[hackrnusr]

Thanks for the suggestion.

Probably worth benchmarking against fzf/ripgrep when I can find the time.

[yonz]

So why do the stock implementations suck?