It's crazy how the Windows Search Indexer still doesn't use MFT.

It doesn't even bloody support network drives so there's no such reason.

I am building an advanced filemanager (FileNinja) for Windows with full integrated everything search & query. you have the option of saving bookmarks to virtual folders that consist of everything searches. Instant directory sizes, tags, custom file descriptions for ntfs. Anyone interested? https://youtu.be/JREufgkf5pk?si=sP05UCOrskpX8OTq

I'm interested! Great marketing video by the way, a good example of using AI-powered voiceovers to level up the one-man-marketing polish capabilities.

Cool, but what is the biggest feature compared to Everything and Listary?

Do you have a git repo to follow?

You can check out the following sites https://github.com/sandeberger, http:\\thefile.ninja or my homepage at https://kodar.ninja. The project is not opensource.

haha I like the voiceover, the video is fun

So that's why Everything is so fast. Nice.

I want to like Everything but every time I start it up it takes 30 sec to 1 minute to update it's index

Try Everything 1.5a - an "alpha" version with many improvements, in development for years but inexplicably hidden away on their website. Never experienced any instability.

https://www.voidtools.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9787

Wow! Shocked that this is the first I've heard of this given that I've been using Everything for years now. Thanks for the link.

Love everything, but I had no idea there was an update... I'll have to try it right away, thanks!

You can set it to run on startup or as a service so it updates the index in the background.

You should not be starting it when you want to search. You should open it when you log in, and leave it in the tray. It will do a full index on launch then subscribe to filesystem notifications to keep itself up to date for as long as it’s open.

Do that and it’s alarmingly fast and responsive except for the minute or two right after launch.

Contrasting seemingly all the other responses to this, I use it the same way you do (only opening it when needed) and I'm fine with the delay: even at its slowest rebuilding the index and searching is faster than the in-built windows Search.

Uninstall, re-install as a service which may now be default.

Better as a service too because the GUI doesn't need to request admin rights.

It should be starting at boot if you installed it as a service, so the indexing will be done then. After that opening and searching is instant.

essential tool