Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 16:00:58 01/12/02
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On January 12, 2002 at 17:46:45, Jeroen van Dorp wrote: >BTW Windows has a search feature to find files quite rapidly. > >Go to stat>seach>files/directories and fill in ert.exe. Now set the search scope >to "local fixed drives" and it will search for the bugger - and no doubt find >it. If you can start it, it is on one of your local drives. I must say, the search under Windows, when you have large hard disks and many tens of thousands of files, leaves something to be desired. It can take 30-90 seconds to find something on my 1.2 GHz Athlon with RAID. On my Macintosh, there are several 3rd party goodies that can search 100,000 files (100 GB across 4 hard disks) in perhaps 2 seconds. I don't know what they do differently (I know they do NOT index the disks -- I hate tools that do that), but the difference in speed is overwhelming. I've tried perhaps 2 dozen 3rd-party Windows search tools, some of which are quite a bit faster than Microsoft's, but none is anywhere near as fast as at least 5 separate tools I've used on the Mac (plus all the Windows ones are much clumsier and more awkward to use). I'm trying to use my Windows PC to replace what I've done for years on my Mac (manage tens of thousands of media files and pieces of shareware/freeware, among other things). If you know of an ultra-fast search tool for Windows, especially one that can transparently replace Microsoft's, please, please let me know!
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