[dave8088]

“Everything” is a must have for me. It’s shocking that Windows doesn’t come with local search that works.

[sphars]

Microsoft has added basically the same functionality to Power Toys, called Run[0], taking heavy inspiration from Everything. But yeah this should be a built-in utility.

[0]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/run

[zacmps]

Does it read the ntfs journal? Because that's really what makes everything, everything.

It makes me wish I used a journaling filesystem on Linux too.

[lelanthran]

I'm pretty certain that everything doesn't use the NTFS journal[1].

My understanding is that everything uses the file open hooks provided for antivirus to maintain the index, which is why it appears instant.

Adding a millisecond to each open call is imperceptible to the user, and it takes less time than that if you return immediately and process the index update in the background.

[1] happy to be proven wrong.

[tambourine_man]

You don’t? What do you run Linux on? The default Ext4 is journaled

[beart]

Not quite. Run has plugins but the default file search still uses windows search. However, there is a third party plugin for powertoys run that integrates the everything search service.

[abrookewood]

Yep, if you run Windows and don't have that installed, you're just suffering for no reason. Fastest file search you will ever find.