Long Awaited Updates to Desktop Search Tool Everything
August 15, 2013
Everything has been updated. That may sound like a reductive philosophical stance, but I am actually referring to the desktop search utility named Everything, which has been in beta for the last five years. Betanews informs us of the platform’s sudden leap forward in, “Aging Desktop Search Tool Everything Now Receives Major Update.” Writer Mike Williams informs us about this apparently underappreciated tool:
“Five years have passed since the search tool Everything first appeared, and the program’s amazing speed gets it fans ever since. It’s easy to see why, too — there’s no fuss, no complexity, just enter part of a file or folder name and results appear just as quickly as you can type.
“What is a little more surprising, though, is that the program’s last stable release was back in March 2009. But there’s no need to worry, Everything isn’t dead, just ‘resting’, and a series of betas released this year show that the developer is determined to make up for lost time.”
It is important to note that Everything only runs on NTFS-formatted drives, and that it searches data by name, not by content. Still, if you know the name of what you are looking for, it might be the most efficient choice. A few of the improvements include: increased ease of locating files of a specified type; an expanded search syntax; the option to run the program as a service; a search history and bookmarks; and context menu customizations. See the write-up for more information.
Cynthia Murrell, August 15, 2013
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Augmentext
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