As many of you probably already know first-hand, we work with a PC full of files and folders of all kinds. In addition to the Windows system, we store many files of our own that sooner or later we will need. Therefore, to locate them, we can use the Windows search engine, or third-party solutions such as Everything .
The Redmond operating system, Windows, has offered us its own integrated search engine for years. This helps us as far as possible to locate specific content on the disk drives of the computer, but it does not always work as we expect. This is something that is especially evident in computers with large HDDs and a large number of files and folders.
In fact, this integrated search function, despite Microsoft‘s efforts to improve it, is not among Windows’ favorites. In fact, many users end up putting it aside to use other third-party solutions. This is the case of the Everything search engine, a third-party program that is an interesting alternative. Say that here we find a file browser for Windows that allows us to locate any file that is on our hard drives. One of its main characteristics is the speed with which it performs these searches.
Therefore making use of this tool, we can find all kinds of saved files. It also integrates some interesting additional functions that will help us with all this. In fact, below we will talk about some of the advantages that you will obtain when using this search engine instead of the native Windows one.
The speed of searches
As we have mentioned before, one of the main advantages that characterize this powerful search engine is the speed at which it searches . In fact, once it starts up with a query we have made, the results appear on the screen almost immediately. This is something that, as we have seen in the Windows 10 search engine, does not always happen when using this integrated method.
Logically this feature is one of the most important when we want to find certain files among thousands of them.
Be able to perform remote searches on computers on a network
On the other hand, it is worth mentioning that this type of action that we comment on to locate specific content in Windows, is not limited to the local computer. We tell you this because Everything also includes its own HTTP server. Thanks to it, we have the possibility of remote searches on other computers. Of course, they have to be available on our local network or LAN .
Filter items to find them better
In addition, the program itself presents us with a good number of filters that we can use to make searches much more effective. In this way, it will be easier for us to locate exactly what we are looking for without running into false results, or failures because they are similar.
Using bookmarks for future tasks in Everything
In addition, in the application that we are talking about at the moment, we find at the same time a useful bookmarks function. Say that these elements to which we refer, allow us to save searches that we have made, certain filters, their filters, etc. As you can imagine, later on we can make use of these to reuse them directly with searches equal or similar to the one stored in the marker.
We also have the possibility to create as many bookmarks as we deem appropriate and thus speed up the use of the program.
Use program functions with keyboard shortcuts
And that’s not all, since in order to make the searches we do here more accessible and faster, the program presents a series of keyboard shortcuts . Thanks to them we have the possibility of launching or accessing a good number of integrated functions of Everything. This way we will use the full potential of the application as such in a more fluid way while working with the files on the PC.
