[the_cramer]

If you want to use powertoys run, i highly recommend the plugin for everything here. [1]

Everything [2] is an indexer that will make finding your local files super fast. If you couple those two, you have a launcher that is able to find all files on your drive very fast (and launch applications of course).

[1] https://github.com/lin-ycv/EverythingPowerToys [2] https://www.voidtools.com/

[jug]

Good suggestion! I long didn't use Everything out of SSD wear concerns, adding yet another indexer to Windows.

Then got the idea that you can of course simply disable Windows Search Indexer service, and Windows gracefully accepts that. Sure, a few integrated search methods like in Explorer or Start Menu stop working or as efficiently but Windows will then tell you when, and you just adapt to using Everything instead.

So I did, and it's just SO much more efficient at both keeping the index updated and finding my files thanks to being MFT based rather than walking through the file system.

[Rinzler89]

>I long didn't use Everything out of SSD wear concerns

How grounded in reality are your SSD wear concerns? I feel like most people are overly paranoid and have unfounded FUD about that.

I use my SSD like a loaner (constantly installing new games and downloading new linux ISOs to try out in VMs) and after 2 years of heavy use it had IIRC ~98% life remaining in SMART statistics. I bought another second hand corporate laptop used for 4 years and the SSD SMART reports a remaining life of 97%.

So unless you want to leave your SSD as inheritance to your grandkids, I don't see the point of hypermiling your SSD to increase longevity. It's a wearable part, it's gonna die eventually no matter how much you baby it, so I might as well use it to the max to get my money's worth, otherwise what's the point? It's not like it's gonna increase in value over time the less you use it like Pokémon cards.

[tracker1]

I would be more concerned with a small SSD with limited available storage... But I've generally just treated SSD/NVME like yourself and not really worried about it.

I did experience a bug in the first gen Intel SSD that one day it showed up as an 8mb drive, didn't know of the fix for it until well later, and it was so small (64gb) that I just swapped it for a larger/cheaper drive by that time.

I also experienced some issues with another drive I replaced a few months ago, that turned out to be an issue with RAM. Again, swapped the 2tb drive for 4tb as I wanted more storage as well.

Other than these, I haven't worn out a drive yet. I have decade old SSDs from an old home server from 12 years ago currently running in RPi boxes via usb-sata adapters.

[bloqs]

FYI the Everything alpha 1.5 (dont quote me on that ) I believe uses the Master File Tree (MFT) and absolutely blows stable branch Everything out of the water

[raincole]

What's the difference between this and the search bar in the start menu?

[alisonatwork]

It seems the sibling commenters don't know about the DisableSearchBoxSuggestions registry option, which I highly recommend keyboard users of Windows to set up on every system they work with.

When the setting is applied the start menu will go back to the old behavior where results appear instantly and always point to your local machine. I'm sure dedicated launchers can do an even better job for deep searches, but personally I've never found myself particularly slowed down by the built-in behavior after disabling that borked web search functionality.

[batrat]

For me is 10X faster and it finds what I need. For example if I search for "power" it shows powerautomate (why??) , powerpoint, powershell in this order. No powertoys. Also if I dont have internet it takes ages before it shows somethig in search. Yea it's much more usefull.

[jve]

Everything works always and searches everything.

Windows start... I don' t even know if search works or file not found. And is way slower.

[KineticLensman]

Everything is instant and doesn’t piss about with internet results. Just what’s on your local system

[ThrowawayTestr]

It actually works