I gave up on Windows search ages ago.

Now I use "Everything". It's instantaneous and finds, well, everything. Including hidden files or stuff in weird/obscure locations on the drive.

AFAIK it only does filenames though, nothing about searching in file contents as well. For me that's been good enough however.

For searching file contents use Agent Ransack https://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/

Under the Advanced Search options there is a way to search file contents but it comes with a warning that contents are not indexed, so you'll want to narrow the search through filenames first.

It has worked for me when I knew the snippet I was looking for but couldn't remember which of about 50 files might contain it.

For the record the tabs in file explorer aren't currently available, the page just says they are coming in October

.. and maybe in 2050 the favorites / Quick access is allways visible.

I really hope windows search has sped up again. I really only use it for opening apps that aren't on my taskbar but somewhere in the past couple of updates it slowed way down for me. I type S-T and it takes 5 seconds to come back with a list of apps starting with ST---.

Are there any power users who use File Explorer? I use TCMD since last millennium and ocassionally working with FE is unproductive PITA. Pretty much only time I use file explorer is when I open/save file (if that dialog window is even FE).

And still showing virtual folders (focuments, videos, pictures etc) before drives in my computer ?