file search

which 3rd party software can do it better? "Everything" app is search forever and halt.

Can't get the datemodified: trick to work in my windows explorer. It doesn't show the promised calendar, parameters such as "thisweek" give nothing. Is WIndows 10 a bunch of crap? Never had this and a hundred other problems with 7 but it seems we're forced to use this OS or migrate to Linux...

My F: drive has disappeared. When I go into This PC it is not there. When I try to receive a file (e.g. a Word file) I get an error message that it cannot retrieve the file because the F: drive is missing. Any ideas? Thank you

Not sure if I can post this here... but gonna try.. Yesterday while using Outlook 2013. Using IMAP, I wanted to share my folders on my computer to another computer, these folders weren't on the IMAP server only locally. I did abit of reading here and there on how to do this and one way to do...

As announced in the May 2018 issue of MSDN Magazine, the latest Windows update introduces support for Console UWP apps. We’re also introducing support for UWP apps to get broader access to the file-system than was previously possible. In fact, it was during the design and development phases of...

Mike submitted a new resource: Everything - A Windows search engine that provides instant results of all files on your PC. Read more about this resource...

I “used” to have a .docx file on my desktop but somehow it has disappeared. I searched my hard drive and search finds the file but when I click to open I get the following message: Windows cannot fine ‘file:///c:/<file name> Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again. Is there...

Hi All Expert, Good Day. I have a user which when she search for file/doc in server network NAS is very slow, but other users pc was fast. But when she search for file/doc on her whole C drive was slow but still fine, I would like to check if indexing help to solve the slowness in searching...

Assume I have a big directory tree. 1.) How can I find out all (non-inherited) access permissions of user unequal to the current owner? 2.) How can I find out all (non-inherited) access permissions of users which are unequal to "Administrators" and "peter'? 3.) How can I find out all...

I have a relatively new asus-computer (i7-6700 HQ-CPU, 2,6 Ghz, 8 GB RAM, 64 Bit) + W 10 Home. Suddenly it works really slow, searching files, f.e on both of my external harddrives (each 1,8 TB / each 1,4 TB free). It finds results but sometimes it searches "forever"...?!? Wyh is that so and...

I recently lost everything on my Windows Vista hard drive, however I had everything backed up on Easeus Todo data recovery which I discovered stores everything on PBD files which can only be recovered through Easeus. My problem is that I now have a computer running Windows 7 and the original...

I am having trouble deleting two files. I could not work out why I couldn't delete the first file (a photo), and then it happened again, so it became obvious what I had done wrong. It was in my "incoming" folder in a P2P file sharing program, and I made the mistake of renaming the file after I...

Hi. In Windows 10, the file search available on the toolbar only searches for text strings in the order you write it in the box i.e. if you write 'garrett higgins', it will NOT find any files in which those words appear in a different order or, indeed, separately. Can i change the settings to...

I want to make a iso file of my current win 10 build but in my surprise, suddenly i can not find that "install.esd" file. It used to be in a hidden folder named "$WINDOWS.~BT". But neither i can find the Folder nor the esd file. For information, I didn't do any disk cleanup and also i don't use...

Running iTunes 12.4.2 under Win7 SP1. Recently, something happened so that selecting any song gives me "The song ... could not be used because the original file could not be found. Would you like to locate it?" The location attempt inevitably gets me nowhere. Can I recover from this...

Consider an example directory containing: IMG_0209.JPG IMG_0210.JPG Some_PDF-numKK.pdf If I want to find the pdf, and happen to remember that it had "numKK" in the filename, I might reasonably search "numKK" and expect to find it. In practice though, this will return 0 results. A search for...

Since my upgrade to Windows 10240 from 8.1, file search (windows key + search string) returns no results. Rebuilt index from scratch. Not working. Any hint?

Hi If you click search from the start button right click menu it opens a search panel on the right side of the screen. It has 3 categories, Everywhere, Files and Settings. If I type in the word "Lucy" (I picked Lucy because it's my animated character and there are a lot of files like Lucy...

Hey guys, I got a problem with my laptop. My old laptop crashed some weeks ago. It doesn't work anymore if I press the power button. So I took the hdd and connected it with desktop-pc to rescue the data. I had to get the rights for the user folder and windows got it automatically for me. But now...

I'm running Windows 8.1. When I save a document in Word 2013 and I begin to enter a tag I use often ("Public Speaking"), Word suggests a short list of tags as I type. That list contains the tag "public speaking anxiety" (with four spaces between "public" and "speaking"). I'd like to...