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Re:Reclaim Windows10 by rasz on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @01:49PM (#27358491)
but why would you let indexer run at all when Everything (https://www.voidtools.com) runs faster, is more accurate, and is a small standalone executable?
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Re:Reclaim Windows10 by OrvalWintermute on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @02:50PM (#27359467)
In general I do not like Microsoft's integrated indexer because I noticed it really slowed down performance, and seemed to hog memory.

Appreciate the utility you pointed out, will happily look into it.

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Re:Reclaim Windows10 by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @10:41AM (#27369239)
They are completely different products. Everything searches just file names, while Windows indexer also searches file contents. It is a much more time consuming task.
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Re:Reclaim Windows10 by abrookewood on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @11:09PM (#27364364)
Please try Everything if you have never tried it before. It is BLAZINGLY fast. From memory it runs off the File Allocation Table to achieve its speed.
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Re:Reclaim Windows10 by 112233 on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @07:17AM (#27367317)
Looks like it still needs to build index of file names for searching.

If you need to search local ntfs drive, try https://sourceforge.net/projects/swiftsearch/

It does not build any indexes, and always shows up to date results (by scanning MFT)

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Re:Reclaim Windows10 by rasz on Friday June 04, 2021 @10:46AM (#27394118)
It doesnt, running it in the background to build up cache is optional.
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