Replace Windows Search With Everything

[@2ToneWalt]

I've been using Everything forever, its a fantastic tool. 👍

[@Britec09]

Do you have it set up like this?

[@2ToneWalt]

@@Britec09 I do now, thank you. 👍

[@chrisr1382]

I'm sorry, but I have to critique your video because I believe it's important to provide accurate information to your viewers. I agree with you that 'Everything' is nice software. However, the following is where I disagree with you: Early on, you state that "unfortunately, Windows Search is a bit of a resource hog...(etc)." Then you state that a lot of people disable this, which means that "you won't have any sort of search feature on your Windows based system...(etc.)." Neither of these things are true. On my Windows 10 64-bit system, this service is using 9.1 MB of memory and 0% CPU resources at idle and while searching. While searching, Windows Explorer maxes out at about 4 MB/sec on my hard drive. Try it. Disable the 'Windows Search' Service, then do a search. It will still work. If you disable the 'Windows Search' Service, you are actually disabling the 'Microsoft Windows Search Indexer' - which is what appears if you bring up the 'Task Manager' window. This does not stop or prevent you from performing searches in Windows. What actually happens when you disable the 'Windows Search' Service is that it disables search indexing. It also has the affect of breaking Sysmain (Windows Prefetch) - so if you still have a mechanical hard drive it's important to leave both the 'Sysmain' and 'Windows Search' services running. If you have an SSD, you should disable 'Sysmain' and leave the 'Windows Search' Service running. Take care.

[@thetoxicguy4783]

Can i assign any keyboard shortcut to open the everything app?

[@T0NYD1CK]

I have been using Everything for a while now. It does make you wonder what the Windows search program is actually doing when Everything can do it so much faster. I am off to get the toolbar now. Thanks for the tip!

[@Britec09]

You're welcome

[@dalriada842]

It's probably spying on you for Microsoft.

[@davidwolfson2587]

Everything is a brilliant program for searching out files and folder on your system. Much better than the Windows search. Thank you Brian. Your tips and tricks are very helpful.

[@Samer_Design]

i didn't know about the toolbar this is amazing man ty

[@Britec09]

You're welcome

[@CoolDudeClem]

I remember using this a little while ago since I was tired of windows 10's search being allmost as slow as windows 7's was. I don't know about windows 11 but using "everything" was lightning quick.

[@Mikey-Likes-I.T]

I'm upgrading my system and installing Windows 11 on it tomorrow. I'm glad I saw this video, as I can now do it to both of my systems.

[@rogerbowen5753]

Quick follow up, it's all installed and working. It is SO fast! I love it. Just have to remember to use it instead of using the box in File Explorer. I used Open Shell to turn off the one in my start menu. Thanks for sharing this brilliant piece of software.

[@Britec09]

Great to hear!

[@timnotbrianmay]

I've been using this for years!!!!!!!!!!! It's absolutely fabulous, and works instantaneously!!!!!!!!!!! I do get better results running it as administrator though... And... ABSOLUTELY GREAT VIDEO, AS ALWAYS, with LOTS OF GREAT INSIGHT AND INFORMATION about the details for setup!!!!!!!!!!

[@tomasrazgus7331]

The problem with windows search is not resources but the thing that it cant find anything...

[@crt4674]

Believe me, if you know how to configure file indexing, it will find absolutely everything for you.

[@HassanSanem]

It sucks bad ​@@crt4674

[@Mario583a]

@@crt4674 Yeah, but people just love to shit on it regardless of this fact.

[@christop_bader]

First time seeing the Toolbar option, nice video thanks Brian

[@Britec09]

Happy to help

[@JasonWestaway]

Hi Brian, Thanks for the video, I have Everything on my laptop but it was getting irritating going to the taskbar all the time. I will rewatch the video so I can follow it step-by-step. I never knew about the toolbar. It seems faster and you find what you want with ease. Thanks again!! Take care. Edit: I did everything you did in the video. I thought Everything was fast with Windows Seach on. Now with no running anything through Windows Seach, Everything is lightning fast! Thank you again!

[@davidp4456]

That’s terrific. The usefulness of windows search caved years ago and is frustrating to use. It fails to find things and then generate results that just have the same individual letters as those in your search and then kindly highlights hundreds of results in yellow for you to search through manually 😫. -What a waste of time. I look forward to having a sensible file search facility once again. Long live XP😂

[@SkidrowTheThird]

Fantastic video! been using everything for a few years now... BUT the toolbar is a complete game changer! ❤❤

[@Eric_McBrearty]

Okay, I installed it and came back just to comment. This is an excellent tool. I can't believe how bad the windows file manager is compared to this. I've had lingering Adobe files that just never seemed to go away. I swear they must reinstall themselves... Anyway, there were so many files uncovered by this program. Thanks for putting out this video, if not, I may have never came across such a useful program. Also, I appreciate you doing the walkthrough and instructing to turn off indexing, and then disable windows search.

[@ozmozis6073]

Brian. The software does a callout to a website. Can you verify that the software is safe and secure?

[@AngryConeMan]

I forgot my email to my Microsoft/Xbox account but still know the gamertag how do I get it back?

[@rizqiput_x]

thanks, awesome. now everything is my new standard

[@Eric_McBrearty]

Another great video. Much appreciated.

[@mikhail21393]

I use it mostly for finding configurations and save files for games, you can find any file or directory faster rather that windows indexer being slow and not useful at all.

[@CrIMiN8l]

Thanks for this, easy to understand and follow tutorial, so much better then the windows search.

[@RRan-dk7ct]

Thanks..not only search but Edge is always running in the background...True Hog !!!

[@Britec09]

Always

[@johnnyv9751]

Awesome, thank you I now have it set up your way, and works great!!

[@Britec09]

Great to hear!

[@blutey]

Thanks Brian, I came across Everything a few days ago and was amazed how fast it is. Strange that Windows search seems so poor in comparison, not just in Win 11 but in previous versions too.

[@bobdobs8855]

Thank you for this! If I have it search all , will it search my several external hard drives as well? Or do I search each hard drive individually?

[@JoseSilveira-newhandleforYT]

Never heard of it before, but it is certainly worth trying - just can't be worse than Windows Search. Thanks!

[@Robert-sl7jo]

Brian, my question concerns the power button. I have open shell and the menu is; switch user, log off, lock, sleep, hibernate, restart, and shut down. In the Windows System menu there are 3 choices, best power efficiency, balanced, and best performance. In the Control Panel there are 2 settings, turn off display, and put the computer to sleep and there options within these 2 settings. The Windows 11 Pro default setting for both is 5 minutes. My Dell XPS 8960 that I bought new in February has 5 external hard drives and some of these kept shutting on and off causing a continual beeping sound from my TV and a clicking sound inside the PC. Also, on the left hand side panel, some of the hard drives kept disappearing and reappearing. I had to unplug a hard drive then plug it back in to show up. The PC has a 1 TB SSD C drive and a 2TB HDD D drive and the D drive is locked but I don't use it, all my data is on the 5 external hard drives. The PC also has an i9 processor and 64GB of RAM. Regarding the sleep mode, with the Windows setting of 5 minutes for turn off display and put the computer to sleep, does it do exactly that?

[@DonzLockz]

A had it a while ago but now I have to install it again with your video. TY🍻🤠

[@Britec09]

Enjoy!

[@manti1923]

Looks like a good tool...I might give it a try at some point...thanks for the heads up.

[@MrSamadolfo]

🙂 yay Everything, thats one of first things I always install, its a life saver especially when you have multiple drives hooked up

[@Britec09]

Its a good app

[@Jakiyyyyy]

Wait until Microsoft block this tool too. Will this toolbar work with %temp% and Run temp folder searching too? Because I do this all the time as a habit. What do? Do you still recommend it?

[@Britec09]

Been out for years

[@mick002003]

just installed its so much better Thanks!😀

[@Britec09]

You're welcome!

[@welshtony1]

Looks like a good tool. Might use it :)

[@Britec09]

You should!

[@Rocky_Johnson]

I had Everything installed for last 2-3 years but did not use it. Now I see this video, re-install Everything and install Everything toolbar and disable Windows Search. And I will give it a shot on this.

[@Britec09]

Give it a go

[@Toytowner]

Process is bit different to install and tweak on W10 but I like the toolbar add-on... Cheers for the heads up

[@chillpill7348]

Toolbar is installed, but I m not getting the option to pin after installation M on Win10.

[@340dave]

Yep, same problem. if you try to run the install again, it want's to delete the installed toolbar.

[@denissetiawan3645]

what's the keyboard shortcut for the everything search?

[@CrIMiN8l]

Hi, this is great video.. love everything so much faster. I have a question I’m on win 11 and went thru all these steps.. whenever I restart windows I get ‘Do you want to allow this app to make changes to your device’ . Is there any way round this? Thanks

[@flight505]

It's useful in many different ways.

[@Britec09]

Thanks

[@zebo-the-fat]

Just installed. seems to be working well so far, only minor thing, the toolbar msc installed but didn't auto start, clicking in the executable started it - all ok now.

[@dogday92]

Quick question, can this be done on windows 10 pro as well?

[@DimpieDeBruyn]

Will the search bar inside explorer still work as per normal, or also through everything ?

[@itzjustkenz]

Thx for this

[@Britec09]

You're welcome

[@drmarkintexas-400]

🏆🤗🙏🧡 Thank you for sharing this

[@Britec09]

You are so welcome

[@Aaron_Hannan]

I have question here, umm, how do I open apps using the everything search?

[@Nokiya]

does anyone know of a way to hide the system tray icon for toolbar? Everything has an option for it, but toolbar doesn't.

[@glenng]

There are some errors here, such as Everything does NOT appear on the Taskbar settings tray icons list, even if you pin it there?

[@zebo-the-fat]

Quick question, when using the Everything Toolbar, it shows up in dark mode, can it be changed to light mode? (I don't read books with white print on black paper and don't want to that on the PC!)

[@kevinobrien2366]

Hi, I have done all of this but I only see folder icons with # signs beside them in Everything. Also, despite deselecting 'Allow files on this drive to have contents indexed in addition to file properties' and rebooting, when I check 'Indexing options' in Control Panel I still see 2 folders ( Start Menu and Users Folder ). Restarted laptop a couple of times, running Windows 11 on a newer machine. Any ideas? Good video, thanks

[@AjaySharma-e7p]

I installed the EverythingToolbar, it is showing up in my installed programs list too under control panel, but i didn't get the screen where it asks which icon to use. I am using Windows 10. I uninstalled the program and re-installed it, still the same result.

[@torque7025]

Gold! Thanks :)

[@Britec09]

You're welcome!

[@khanleader]

thank you so much

[@MrMojolinux]

Brian, Is this Windows "Search" replacement called "Everything", one of those programs you just warned us to be careful installing due to MS aggressive new policy against 3rd party customization alternatives? This MS 3rd Party alternative response were included in recent Windows Updates that result in a "Black Screen of Death", and ultimately require a total re-installation of Windows?

[@WERDN4]

Is possible really replace it windows icon search?

[@martinjjnoagenda5536]

I've been using it for a long time already. Everything is so much faster, makes you wonder why Windows Search still is so terribly slow. Connect some big drive and before you can blink, it got it indexed also.

[@vladandrei1996]

This can be done on Windows 10 too?

[@mda5003]

It doesn't work for me. I've got Windows search indexing turned off but Everything just comes up with a blank screen - plenty of options but it is not searching for anything at all. I've even tried '*.*' and nothing is shown. Could it be something I've disabled in Group Policy Editor?

[@goofyrulez7914]

How long before Microsoft disables this too?

[@HonuManHi]

I used everything for years, and they have not disabled it.

[@davidthescottishvegan]

​@@HonuManHi Not yet, but there's always a first time and it wouldn't surprise me if Microsoft attempted to do it.

[@goofyrulez7914]

@@HonuManHi - But recently, Microsoft has been on a path to stop anybody from using third party apps that replace the Microsoft nonsense like them screwing up the taskbar (almost NO customization) and making strange decisions like making common menu items hidden behind a second click (you need a second click for Cut and Paste!). Microsoft is becoming like Apple... You do it their way or not at all.

[@HonuManHi]

@@goofyrulez7914 Sorry, I don't ride the conspiracy bus.

[@HonuManHi]

@@davidthescottishvegan They would gain nothing by blocking such a tool.

[@johngoard8272]

Hmm Brian I am not really aware of what Windows search really does as a Brave search just shows me that it shows up whatever I type in to look for stuff. So I ma just a little confused as to how this program will save me time and resources.

[@TheBronk9]

Just watch the video, very interesting program will be trying it ASAP.

[@Britec09]

You're welcome

[@northgamingx]

Amazing thank you

[@Britec09]

Our pleasure!

[@BuggsOp]

After install the toolbar doesn't open on Windows 10 the app installs fine just the toolbar doesn't automatically open

[@GehMemories]

wow... i'm trying this now... will update if it works on windows 10

[@GehMemories]

ya it works... but i still need the windows serach to find settings like "Device manager", Disk management", "power options", "computer management" etc..... am I missing something (I ma using windows 10

[@EIRE55]

@@GehMemories I may be wrong about this, as I'm still using W8.1, but all I need to do to find all those is to right-click on the Windows icon in my taskbar, and the whole list shows for you to choose from. I hope that helps.

[@GehMemories]

@@EIRE55 Ya i realize this ! But thank you 👍

[@videodude8137]

Ive installed the Everything Toolbar, but it never ends with Icon choice you show.

[@anomamos9095]

I’m looking for a file search tool that can find duplicates with different file names. Something that might be able to look inside file metadata or other internal characteristics to find duplicates even if the files are of different sizes are file types.

[@daverennie5077]

Does it work on 32bit systems?

[@kicapanmanis1060]

Been using this for almost two years after, get this, getting frustrated with Windows Search. Stuck with it ever since.

[@kaunisiapa]

I've been using it since win7.. 😂😂.. it's a great & very helpful app when searching for anything in pc.. Thank you.. 😂😂

[@Britec09]

Welcome 👍

[@mikebaker2927]

I often search for files within Explorer. Will this replace that or will I have to use Everything from now on if I follow your guide.

[@Jakiyyyyy]

I think it's better to stick with the habit. Otherwise you need to adapt with the new method.

[@Britec09]

Everything searches everything

[@mikebaker2927]

@@Britec09 I’m aware of that. Will it disable the ability to search within Explorer?

[@Britec09]

@@mikebaker2927 You can leave that part on if you wish

[@mikebaker2927]

@@Britec09 thanks Brian. I’ve used Everything before but never played with the options. I’ll have to take another look at it and see if I can tweak it the way I like it.

[@dalefuller6976]

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I have used Everything for quits some time but never knew how to replace Windows search. I put my computer to sleep at night and when I woke it up the next day it was faster. I like Win 11 but this replacement is GREAT! '

[@bobwallace3295]

Same issue with Toolbar not installing on Windows 10. Progress Bar on MSI never even moved. Took brief look at 1.3.2 but that didn't appear to be a viable solution ... didn't even find .msi file. Hopefully it'll be fixed soon.

[@AzhimF]

Does this work in win 10?

[@randyginger69]

thank u britec but i get an error code 2503 when i try installing the everything toolbar can anyone help please

[@TheDa6781]

Thanks Korg

[@videodude8137]

Everything everywhere all at once!

[@peterwolfik5827]

I use Everything since many years. I’m wondering if Microsoft will also block this in 24H2 update

[@rogerbowen5753]

Sounds like a great option. Would it get overridden by 24H2 when we update to it? I suppose we'd just have to kill Windows Search again.

[@Britec09]

Should be OK.

[@rogerbowen5753]

@@Britec09 Good, I'll give it a whirl later.

[@photonboy999]

"Toolbar" doesn't seem to work with the ALPHA version of Everything.

[@ajsem]

Note: For Everything 1.5a the instance name 1.5a must be set in the EverythingToolbar settings

[@donniesenor3440]

What do we need a p/c for or Microsoft or Windows 11, I am confused at 75 years of age

[@Assaultzyy]

can you elaborate ?

[@donniesenor3440]

@@Assaultzyy please excuse my stupid comment just having a bad day however Everything is a great software tool, but do not attempt to remove File explorer, buyer beware!!!!

[@Sid-Cannon]

Been using Everything for donkeys years, but what you describe here doesn't seem to work on Windows 10 IoT LTSC.

[@OlettaLiano]

I always turn off Windows Search the day I reinstall Windows, as well as get rid of Bing. I have no need for any kind of search on my system. I have very few files on my system, and they are well organized in folders on my desktop.

[@Britec09]

I hate BING

[@msh6610]

Their lack of search is quite disturbing ,yes !

[@tonywise198]

Everything Seach is great, but probably something else that Microsoft will block in time!

[@crt4674]

Hmmm, windows search is more than that because it indexes the content of each file. In other words, if you want to find a document containing a keyword you're searching for, Windows Search can do it. That's why the initial indexing takes so long. You can't compare Everything to this one. There are other free search programs that index file content, such as Docfetcher, for example. I use Everything only to quickly search for a file by name. It's not much compared to Windows Search, it's like a toy gun.

[@MaiderGoku]

This light mode is hurting me. I understand you have to use light, but still.

[@Britec09]

it has dark mode

[@photonboy999]

*Everything* I use the Alpha version. It's been stable, has better features and has Dark Mode. (UPDATE: never used the "Toolbar" version. Will try it.) *Windows Search* It won't actually do anything much of the time if I simply type something in. I found out I sometimes have to DELETE the last character and for whatever reason it "wakes up" and searches. Like if I type in "bananas" it might display nothing (even if I hit "ENTER" after), but then I delete the "s" it suddenly searches... and if I type stuff I have to WAIT to finish or it screws up. For example if I type in "NOT *.jpg" it gets confused unless I wait after the "NOT" because I guess it's busy with that demanding task. And that's for a small folder with 50 images.

[@saadfl6422]

Great VIdeo! Keep in mind guys if you are a developer the unindexing thing will gona take forever. Its unindexing my node modules for like 30 mins and still going. Help meeeee

[@scooo0ooobz715]

Everything is a must i've used it for many many years and i won't use anything else.

[@Britec09]

I agree

[@zarg05]

wont the new windows 11 update stop this??

[@sanderstormalekhine697]

I also remember Glary Search but This Everything is way more better. Just Don't Delete any System Files.

[@michaelcopple1736]

Everything is a super-fast program for finding what you need on your system. Why M$ has not adopted a similar style code for search in their own code and still going the long route of sucking up valuable resources is weird.

[@harrydaochlandvettershemby1824]

I always use Everything AS WELL AS Windows Search. "Everything" does NOT search the content of a file like Windows search does. To say that Everything REPLACES Windows search is therefore pure misinformation.

[@jr3474]

I USE XSEARCH.... it is very light

[@340dave]

Toolbar won't install on Win 10..

[@tentimesful]

I used to shutdown in win 10 cortana internet search to speed up file and application search which is standard in win 11 lol maybe they spied on me using win 10 lol....

[@birolvurgun]

First of all, thank you. I have a question. Can the everything application also find words in the file content? Windows search can do this. For example, I can find the name of a person I want from thousands of pages in a .docx document.

[@astropgn]

I suggest Everything to everyone I know!

[@Britec09]

Nice

[@astropgn]

@@Britec09 It is really great! And I didn't know about the second part, to add as your search bar and disable windows services. Really cool, thanks!

[@Britec09]

@@astropgn You're welcome

[@SteveM45]

Verwende ich seit vielen Jahren.

[@Samer_Design]

🔥

[@Britec09]

Cheers

[@bigbigfizzi]

I must know... In every video, you open with... "Whacha guys..." Is that what you are saying?

[@franciscohorna5542]

i have portable version

[@Britec09]

Nice

[@franciscohorna5542]

@@Britec09 way better than windows search for sure

[@opensourceisnotcommunism4639]

👍