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Originally published in July 2012. Updated by Joel Lee in October 2017.
Have you ever searched for a program, file, or folder only to discover that the system search takes longer to find results than it does to just go find them manually yourself? I’d imagine most Windows users face this dilemma.
Although there are things you can do to improve Windows Search results, there are some excellent alternatives to the default Windows Search that you should consider using.
These applications are all free and allow you to get your results faster, more efficiently, and some even display more accurate results.
1. UltraSearch
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UltraSearch is a creation of JAM Software. They are also the creators of the popular hard drive space recovery program, TreeSize (but you’re better off using these disk space cleaner tools and the Compact OS feature in Windows 10). UltraSearch offers essential search features plus a few extras, all while keeping it simple and fast.
It works by directly searching the Master File Table (MFT). Within the search window, all important file information is displayed. It also displays all of your computer’s partitions and their total size and free space. Additional options include showing folders and/or files in a search, exclude filters, and printing the search results.
2. FileSearchEX
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If you prefer the style of search from Windows XP, FileSearchEX is the program for you. Not only is the search interface familiar and comfortable, the app itself is portable and uses minimal system resources.
However, there is one drawback: the free version is a trial — not in the sense that the program will expire and become unusable, but the search window will timeout. Open the window, complete your search, then close it. If you do this in a timely manner, you should be fine.
Overall the search performance is OK. It isn’t nearly as fast as the other programs I tested, but I still noticed it was quicker than the default Windows Search and remains a good alternative.
3. Super Finder XT
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Super Finder XT has a very nice interface and displays search results quickly. Its interface mimics the interface found in Microsoft Office 2007 and 2010. And while it’s not overly complicated, it does offer a decent amount of features.
The non-supporter version has quite a few features available, but the supporter version has even more. To use the supporter version, donate any amount to the developer through PayPal. The perks of this version include are receiving a portable app, excluding folders from search results, using special hotkeys, enabling Most Recent Used management, and selecting multiple files.
4. Locate32
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As of this writing, Locate32 hasn’t been updated since 2012. Yet despite the app’s age, it still works and it’s still good. It’s free, simple, yet full-featured enough to provide an excellent search experience. If you want to learn more, check out our overview of Locate32. Again, not much has changed since then, so you’ll find everything you need to know in that article.
5. Everything
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Everything by Voidtools is the most renowned search alternative to Windows Search. It’s portable so it doesn’t require installation, it’s free, and it’s just an all-around great program.
Upon launching it for the first time, it will scan and build a database of all the files on your computer, but this indexing process is actually quite fast. When typing into the Everything search box, results are shown in real-time with every key you press — only possible because of the smart initial indexing.
There isn’t really an “advanced search” option, but it’s not really needed because the main search is advanced enough as it is. Without a doubt, Everything is one of the best free search tools for Windows 10.
6. Launchy
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Launchy is a nifty app that’s meant to replace the Start Menu, the Taskbar, the File Explorer, and desktop shortcuts. If you’ve ever used a Mac, then it’s a bit like Spotlight. Launchy indexes your entire system, then lets you launch files, apps, folders, and bookmarks with just a few keystrokes.
Most people think Launchy can only launch apps, but it can search files and folders if you enable the setting. Open Launchy with the Alt + Space shortcut, click the gear icon at the top right, go to the Catalog tab, find File Types in the right panel, then click “+” to add file types and directories that you want to include in the search.
Which Search Tool Is Right for You?
Which one’s right for you? Only you can decide. They’re all solid options, so my best advice is to try them all out and go with the one that feels best to use on a day-to-day basis. If you find yourself reverting to Windows Search, then maybe that particular search tool doesn’t mesh well with your workflow. For it to be a good fit, it should feel natural and convenient to use.
But bottom line? You can’t go wrong with any of these options. They’re all great and all fast at displaying your search results, although some are faster than others. A few of them have unique features or interface designs that may appeal. It’s up to you!
If speed is your most pressing concern, check out our roundup of the fastest search tools for Windows.
What current methods are you using to find your programs and files? Do you use an alternative to Windows Search that wasn’t mentioned here? How do you like (or dislike) the native search in Windows 10?
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Being able to search through the files you have on your computer is an integral part of file management and typing a search term into a box and letting the computer do it will save far more time than manually searching through drives and folders yourself. Windows has had the simple ability to search for a file for the longest time, and in Windows Vista an even faster way was introduced to search your files with the indexing feature which brings up the search results almost instantly.
Search indexing is a simple concept and it collects the names and locations of all the files you have on the computer, and places them all into a database. When you search for something the database is queried instead of Windows manually going through the whole system to see if a file match exists. Before you can make use of indexing in Windows the system first has to create the database. Windows Search is often criticized because it can be resource intensive and make thousands of writes to your hard drive or SSD in the background.
While Windows Search might not be the best, if you have hundreds of thousand or even millions of files stored on your system, indexing is still the way to go for the fastest results. Windows Search isn’t the only indexing search tool available, and there are many others that can index your files quickly by reading the Master File Table on the drive, here are 7 for you to try out.
1. Locate32
A lot of people have recommended Locate32 to us over the years as a good quality and fast file searcher that uses an index database to get faster results. While the version on the official website is from 2011, there is a repository at Sourceforge and a newer version from 2014 with a few updates and fixes is available.
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Although creating a database is done manually, there are quite a few options for setting one up, including the ability to have multiple databases and perform searches from specific databases. Locate32 supports searching with wildcards and regular expressions with additional tabs to filter results by date, time and file size. The Advanced tab offers other search filters like casing, extensions and files or folders only, the “File containing text” option will search the contents of files for the search string although this will significantly increase search times.
One thing we noticed while using Locate32 is there was sometimes a several second hang on startup and also at certain times inside the program when altering configuration or search options. While not a major annoyance this could become a problem on less powerful computers or when dealing with huge databases. That said, Locate32 has plenty of functions to tailor searching to your liking and is still a useful tool, it’s also portable.
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2. TheSearchMan
TheSearchMan is by the same developer as TheFolderSpy and his tools are usually small and compact. What makes TheSearchMan a useful alternative to some other similar tools is it’s database is only manually created when you tell it to, and it’s a very simple portable tool to work with offering no configuration options at all.
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On first run simply click “Create new index” to index all files on your drives, after that the Index Search option becomes available. Then type in your search term, wildcards are accepted. “Search within results” will open another window to narrow down the results you have even further, while normal search will perform a non indexed slower search on the drive (use ‘all’ for all drives) or folder you enter. TheSearchMan is from 2011 and despite the occasional crash, it’s an effective and very simple file finder, make sure to use the correct 32-bit or 64-bit version.
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3. Everything
For an indexing search program, Everything is the most well known. It has a lot of useful options while still being easy enough to use unless you are a complete novice, although to get the best out of it some knowledge of inputting commands is beneficial.
Everything indexes your NTFS drives on first run and then watches the filesystem for changes, updating the database as necessary. Other drives such as CD/DVD ROM, NAS, (ex)FAT(32) and Windows shares can be added manually and updated periodically. You can search using boolean, regex, wildcards, file types, macros and the built in syntax. Other notable features include HTTP/ETP/FTP server options, bookmarks and comprehensive command line options. Both portable and installer versions are available.
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A couple of minor niggles we came across were it seemed to want to reindex some drives on almost every startup, even if the program has only just been closed, and when filtering the whole file list with a date and/or size, querying for the results can take a while. This first issue should be fixable by altering USN Journal size or disabling the option to monitor changes. The second issue is known about and should be updated in the next version of Everything.
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4. Hddb File Search
We’re not quite sure what has happened to Hddb because it appeared in early 2014 and showed a great deal of promise, then less than a year later the website was gone and there has been no news or updates since early 2015. A great shame for a tool that was becoming one of the best indexing file searchers around, hopefully it will continue at some point in the future.
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Hddb is quite flexible with indexing, by default it asks on first run to create a database and then you create subsequent updates manually. Alternatively there are options to also create on program startup or a user defined amount of minutes/hours/days. Even with over 2 million files in the database, searching for results is incredibly fast and measured in milliseconds by the program. The Query Composer can quickly allow you to use more advanced filters and search by files or folders, file size, modified date and time, and drive online/offline status.
One advantage Hddb has over Everything is the near instantaneous display in the search results when filtering by size and date. Everything can take several seconds to do the same thing on a large file database. Other useful functions are export to text file, a file preview window, a file hasher and a web server option to access Hddb from the network or internet. Installer and portable versions are available.
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5. MasterSeeker
Although MasterSeeker indexes the drives on every startup like a number of other programs, what makes this program stand out is the sheer speed at which it creates the database, around 7 seconds on our test PC with 2 million files. This does come at a price though because with that speed also comes a sizeable memory footprint and the MasterSeeker.exe was using 400MB-700MB of system memory after creating our index.
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If you have a lot of files to index and the memory to handle it, MasterSeeker is a very fast tool and one of the quickest we tried. The real-time results are fast to show when you start typing a search term, filtering by file size is also near instant, and clicking on a column to sort the list works at a good speed, even with millions of files displayed. Sorting by directory and filtering out files or folders is an available option. Wildcard and regular expression searching is supported, as are NTFS, FAT, FAT32 and exFAT file systems. MasterSeeker is portable and requires .NET Framework v2.0.
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6. UltraSearch
UltraSearch is by Jam Software, the same developer behind the popular TreeSize program. This is another one that indexes drives on the program’s launch but it was reasonably fast and indexed our 2 million files in about 15 seconds. This number could change dramatically if you have slow hardware and/or several million files. To start it will only index the C drive so you need to right click in the drives pane at the bottom and select more manually or right click and “Check all”.
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While you can use wildcards and regular expressions to help filter the search results, other options like filtering by file size and dates are not available, however there is an exclude filter and you can also turn on or off the option to show just files, just folders, or both. To search a single drive or folder simply use the browse button or enter the path into the search box. Both installer and portable versions are available.
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7. FileSearchy
What makes FileSearchy a useful addition to your collection is if you want the speed of indexing and the ability of searching for text strings inside files. FileSearchy is quite smart because it ignores any binary files and only searches through text files, Office documents, PDFs, html files etc. The list of searchable file filters can be edited from the options window.
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FileSearchy indexes NTFS drives on first run, which can take a minute, then the database will update a drive’s entries on subsequent starts if the file table has changed. Searching by substring, whole word, regex or boolean is accepted and with the Search Parameters open on the left you can also search by specific folders and filter results by date and file size. Substring, whole word, regex and case can also be used when searching inside file contents by enabling Advanced options. By default FileSearchy runs in the background, to turn this off go to Options > General. FileSearchy is also tabbed meaning you can have several different search results open at once.
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Final Note: There are other programs available that use indexing for searching which we don’t have in our list, and are worth checking out if the tools above don’t do exactly what you want. They include Wise JetSearch, NTFS Search, SwiftSearch, and Index Your Files.