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Author Topic: Vista search is clumsy and hard to use.  (Read 625 times)

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Offline DemonDuck

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Vista search is clumsy and hard to use.
« on: October 14, 2009, 11:02:49 AM »
I've turned off Indexing and my computer is breathing much easier.

Searching on the other hand is so awkward, clumsy and unusable that even if Indexing ran 24/7 -- it wouldn't help.

Does anyone know of a better search tool for Vista 64?
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Offline Black Viper

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Re: Vista search is clumsy and hard to use.
« Reply #1 on: October 14, 2009, 11:04:24 AM »
What exactly are you looking for and need a search feature for?
Files?
Contents of files?
Etc...
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Offline couttsj

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Re: Vista search is clumsy and hard to use.
« Reply #2 on: October 14, 2009, 11:31:21 AM »
For file searching, I can highly recommend Agent Ransack:
http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/
I don't know how well it works on 64 Bit, as the Web site says that only the FileLocater Pro version offers native 64-bit support. Somewhere on this site I posted the speed increases I got without indexing. And the biggest advantage is that it does not hide files like the Microsoft search.

J.A. Coutts
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Offline DemonDuck

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Re: Vista search is clumsy and hard to use.
« Reply #3 on: October 14, 2009, 11:33:30 AM »
Contents of a file in a particular folder and its sub-folders. 

You know, when you are programming and using a large library and you want to find a particular constant or method or function but you only can guess at the spelling.

Like grep --

For example: I'm working with the OpenGL ES / JavaScript interface to Canvas3D.  Lot's of JavaScript.  No documentation.  I needed to find a particular JavaScript function.  I eventually found it using Vista's built in search but it's like the drunk test in the "Man With Two Brains"...
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Offline DemonDuck

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Re: Vista search is clumsy and hard to use.
« Reply #4 on: October 14, 2009, 11:42:52 AM »
Quote from: couttsj on October 14, 2009, 11:31:21 AM
For file searching, I can highly recommend Agent Ransack:
http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/

It works on my Vista Business 64 machine just fine.  It's good enough for who it's for  ;)

I really don't like Vista Folders.  I have a free upgrade to W7 but I'm afraid it will be even worse than Vista.

My ultimate machine would be Win NT 64 with the current file system...

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Re: Vista search is clumsy and hard to use.
« Reply #5 on: October 14, 2009, 11:50:02 AM »
Quote from: DemonDuck on October 14, 2009, 11:42:52 AM
My ultimate machine would be Win NT 64 with the current file system...
I would go one step further with Windows 2000. :P
However, Linux is better. :)
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Re: Vista search is clumsy and hard to use.
« Reply #6 on: October 14, 2009, 12:14:12 PM »
Quote from: Black Viper on October 14, 2009, 11:50:02 AM
Quote from: DemonDuck on October 14, 2009, 11:42:52 AM
My ultimate machine would be Win NT 64 with the current file system...
I would go one step further with Windows 2000. :P
However, Linux is better. :)

Win2K is good.  The reason I got my V64 machine was because my Win2K machine had a disk crash.  I wanted to go with XP64 but couldn't find a cheap one.  Then I found a Dell refurb V64 with a fast CPU for less than components cost.  So I went with it.

Now that I've got most of the useless stuff turned off, it goes pretty fast.  But it would probably blaze if I was running Linux.  But I don't have the time to reconfigure and re-tool.

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