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"Everything" is an administrative tool that locates files and folders by filename instantly for Windows. https://www.voidtools.com/

From http://www.voidtools.com/faq.php#What_is__Everything:

"Everything" is an administrative tool that locates files and folders by filename instantly for Windows. Unlike Windows search "Everything" initially displays every file and folder on your computer (hence the name "Everything"). You type in a search filter to limit what files and folders are displayed.

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How can I force Everything search engine to re-index?

I used Everything for searching files on Windows 7. I made many changes in the file system based on the results (deleting and renaming specific files), and I want to check if I covered all the files I have been looking for. Therefore, I need…
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Can I launch Everything without getting UAC popup on Windows 7?

I like to use launchy, and on XP I can use it to quickly start a new instance of Everything so I can find some file or other. However on windows 7 when I try and start it from launchy I always get the UAC panel before it starts. How can I avoid…
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How to use regular expressions with Everything.exe

I want to use Everything to search a specific folder on an external drive for files with filenames ending in an underscore and number, such as in the below examples: _01 _1 _10 I want to do this for the purpose of weeding out files that I know for…
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Windows Search index using a lot of cpu

Recently I've noticed that windows search indexer is using about 15% cpu I don't think it's been like this before, only in the last week or so Any ideas what can cause this? Also, I use Everything app as well. Recently I've found that it's been…
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Restoring old documents found by search engine Everything from $recycle.bin of hard drive D of another PC

I'm trying to recover some old files whose status I do not quite understand. Back in ~2006, I accidently deleted some essential Word documents from my then D:\ -hard drive (Windows ME). Some years later, all old then D:-data got copied onto the…
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Why don't I find folders and shortcuts inside the Windows Start Menu folder with Everything search?

I use Everything search from voidtools which is an awesome free tool. However, there are certain folders and files which I don't find. And I don't know why that is. Case 1: I don't find the Start Menu folder The Start Menu folder does exist but…
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Make "Everything" by VoidTools show up first in Windows Search

I use VoidTools Everything search tool instead of Windows' built-in search. On my desktop and laptop, hitting the Windows key and typing "Everything" would make that tool show up first on the Start menu, which means that I could add the Enter key to…
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How to create keyboard shortcut in Explorer (Win10)

In Windows 10 I have context menu item with which I can search selected file with the Everything app. The command of it is: "C:\Program Files\Everything\Everything.exe" -name-part "%1" so it is passing name of the file to the app. I'm looking for…
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UAC: Autohotkey calling the Windows 10 command window; es.exe by Voidtools Everything

New readers please (just) read my second edit. (Original title: "UAC: Cannot use the command window anymore with Autohotkey (Windows 10)", intermediate title: "UAC: Cannot run es.exe (Voidtools Everything) in the command window from Autohotkey…
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Notepad++ "Replace in Files" with complex folder filter

I'm trying to replace something in all .js files that have a folder called Views somewhere in their pathname. This includes these samples: C:\Project1\Web\Views\Entity\List.js D:\Project2\Views\AnotherFolder\YetAnotherFolder\Go.js Is that possible…
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How do I set up Launchy's Runner plugin to launch Everything search

I'm trying to configure Everything 1.3.3.658 with Launchy 2.5.0 From command line everything.exe -search foo This works pretty much as expected. What I would like to do is run this command from Launchy, which seems possible with its Runner…
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Is there a way to change Windows XP "open file" dialog with something better?

I mean this dialog that pops up when you try to open a file: https://i.sstatic.net/mpt2y.png Is there a way to change this; perhaps into something similar to Everything? Edit: also, are Windows 7 / Mac OS / Linux equivalents better?
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How to make Everything show the same results as Windows Search?

I've been using the Everything search utility for a while now and it's great. Now I decided to use the toolbar too, and completely replace Windows Search, but there are some functionality differences I would like to get rid of. For example, I cannot…
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Everything VoidTools can't find pdflatex.exe

I installed Miktex (https://miktex.org/), which has a bin folder MiKTeX\miktex\bin\x64 There are files in it such as pdflatex.exe which Everything can't find. It can find other files such as miktex-pdftex.exe.
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How to open folders from "Everything" Search in a new tab (Windows 11)

i'm basically looking for a way to open folders from 3rd party apps (or at least just from "Everything") in a new tab and not a new window In windows 11 File explorer there's an option to open folders in a new tab from context menu "Open in new…
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