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[goodcow]

Yes, we all know the Windows Search feature is horrible.

Are there any plugins that make it NOT suck ass and freeze, or just good third-party alternatives to search with instead?

 

[sprsk]

google desktop search?

 

[Phoenix]

Google toolbar and Google Desktop?

 

[goodcow]

Google Desktop Search isn't very good... it comes in handy when looking for an obscure word in a file, but I want a full drive search, sortable by dates modified, sizes, etc.

For example, just now, I got a LOW DISK SPACE ERROR on my Windows drive, and was shocked to see I have about 200 megs.

Now I'm assuming it's just temp files from two, one-hour MPEG2 files I'm encoding now, because I had like five gigs free yesterday, so I wanted to do a full file listing, to then sort by size.

Of course:

1) It takes Windows about ten minutes just to do that
2) I deleted one file from the listing, so then it has to refresh the ENTIRE listing, from scratch, basically freezing the results and almost crashing explorer with it

I don't understand why the hell Windows Search is such a joke, it's not as if NTFS isn't a decently robust file system.

 

[PotatoeMasher]

Google Desktop Search isn't very good... it comes in handy when looking for an obscure word in a file, but I want a full drive search, sortable by dates modified, sizes, etc.

For example, just now, I got a LOW DISK SPACE ERROR on my Windows drive, and was shocked to see I have about 200 megs.

Now I'm assuming it's just temp files from two, one-hour MPEG2 files I'm encoding now, because I had like five gigs free yesterday, so I wanted to do a full file listing, to then sort by size.

A useful app not many people think to use is called TreeSize... it shows each folder on your hard drive along with how much space it and it's subs take up... very useful for finding big files you forgot about...


http://www.jam-software.com/freeware/index.shtml

 

[Phoenix]

Another one which I use from time to time when on a Windows box:

http://www.jgoodies.com/freeware/jdiskreport/index.html

 

[joaomgcd]

I use DISKData and find it very usefull to do precisely what you described.