#Quoteverything desktop search software#
#Quoteverything desktop search windows#

I would love to be able to customize that also, the program needs to add a ‘open file/folder path’ function as the first entry when you right click a file, IMHO.

The ability to customize the left click: with Quick Search, the left click opens the folder/path where the item is located rather than run the file.

More resource intensive than Everything: about 90 megs, compared with approx.

This is the sort of thing that us users of “Everything” are looking for that has been missing.

The ability to filter by additional search criteria: e.g.

I use this all the time with “Everything”. This would be very handy to instantly limit your search to a certain path and/or get a ‘flat view’ of a folder.

#Quoteverything desktop search windows#

Windows context menu entry: strangely missing.The screenshot below illustrates this with a side by side comparison of results from ‘Everything’ and ‘Quick Search’. TORRENT, but unsure if it is extension specific), the wrong path and file icon are displayed, and double clicking on the file does not open the correct folder/path. Fix a serious bug: whereby for some files (I’ve seen it on.

#Quoteverything desktop search software#

See screenshot to the right for an example.ĬONS: how this software can be even better You could even add your own group of file types to the list of filters.

Filter by file type: provides a sidebar in the results set whereby you could filter files by type (e.g.

the ‘date’ column) and get sorted results in fairly short order, even when the search results consists of several thousand entries (‘Everything’, in contrast, strangely bogs down when you try to do the same thing).

Results are sortable: seems obvious, but in Quick Search you can sort search results by clicking on the column head (e.g.

If you would rather see a ‘normal’ window in the middle of the screen you can do that as well in ‘full’ mode.

The interface: double-clicking ‘control’ displays a quick search prompt by the system tray for quick system wide search.

“Quick Search” is based on the exact same concept it does, however, introduce a few changes in interface and filtering that are very attractive. This is because it provides lightning fast search that is as close to real time as can be, owing to the fact that it uses the raw Master File Table of the NTFS drive to create it’s index rather than physically scanning the hard drive. Do the words “lightning fast desktop search” seem like a great thing to you? If so, then read on.īut first, a bit of context visit my “ Freeware Top 30” page and you will see that the first program on the list is a desktop search program called “Everything”.