Tech assistance request - searching
 

I'm running a windows with a useless search tool. Savy users will know this platform.

Basically the search tool does not find any documents/files etc when searching on words known to be in the docs. i.e. copying a word from a doc and searching for that word in that folder returns no results. Always been like this because that is the tools level of capability. Well done MS.

I am looking for a search tool that works without first indexing the whole computer.

Anyone using such a beast they could recommend please?

Thanks

After some preliminary searching, it looks like you are going to have to use some sort of script, python or vbs, this functionality is not available in windows from what I can tell.

Thanks TNE. I feared you are right.

I did find a tool I can live with called locate32. It allows me to limit the source folders for the indexing and works well. It can find text inside quite a lot of document types. It is also pretty quick. It also doesn't send indexes anywhere which is good. It does not search archive files.

It's not surprising that someone made a tool. There were a lot of people talking about this concept, and it seems like a common idea for a program.

Out of curiosity, how much data are you searching through?

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