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Re: Searching for files

From VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH>
Newsgroups alt.comp.os.windows-10
Subject Re: Searching for files
Date 2025-01-20 06:16 -0600
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Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> wrote:

> VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> wrote:
> 
>> Nil <rednoise9@rednoise9.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>> Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> wrote: 
>>> 
>>>> Is there a way to search for files in Win 10 without being taken
>>>> on long detours by Bing or CoPilot?
>>> 
>>> I use Voidtools Everything search for finding files by file name,
>>> which is 99% of my searches. It returns results almost
>>> instantaneously. It's maybe my most-used utility.
>>> 
>>> For the few times I need to find a file by content, I use Agent 
>>> Ransack. 
>> 
>> [Search] Everything can also search within files by using its Search
>> -> Advanced Search menu.  
> 
> How, when it can't even search for file names and goes straight to
> Bing?

voidtools [Search] Everything does NOT use any online search engine.  It
performs only local searches.  Not sure why you went off on a tangent
claiming Everything uses some online search engine.  Maybe you meant to
reply to someone else.

Also, if you know regex (regular expression), you can enable regex to
allow you to more accurately define the filter on what to search.  DOS
wildcarding is inaccurate.  regex allows far superior filtering, but you
need to know PCRE (Perl Core Regular Expressions).  There are online
tutorials to learn regex.  I didn't sit down studying regex to know it
all.  I just started doing a little bit at a time, wanted to do
something that I would hunt online to see how to do it, and acquired
some expertise.  However, seems that no matter how much of regex that I
learn, there is still a TON more that I could learn, but the effort
would be a diminishing return on little-used expressions.

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Searching for files Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2025-01-18 20:06 +0200
  Re: Searching for files D <noreply@mixmin.net> - 2025-01-18 18:47 +0000
    Re: Searching for files Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2025-01-20 08:32 +0200
      Re: Searching for files Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-20 04:45 -0500
      Re: Searching for files D <noreply@mixmin.net> - 2025-01-20 13:19 +0000
      Re: Searching for files Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-01-20 08:45 -0500
        Re: Searching for files "Allan Higdon" <allanh@vivaldi.net> - 2025-01-20 09:29 -0600
          Re: Searching for files Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-01-20 13:33 -0500
            Re: Searching for files "Allan Higdon" <allanh@vivaldi.net> - 2025-01-20 14:01 -0600
          Re: Searching for files Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-20 15:45 -0500
  Re: Searching for files Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-01-18 13:56 -0500
  Re: Searching for files Michael Logies <logies@t-online.de> - 2025-01-18 19:58 +0100
  Re: Searching for files Nil <rednoise9@rednoise9.invalid> - 2025-01-18 14:01 -0500
    Re: Searching for files VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-01-19 00:50 -0600
      Re: Searching for files Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2025-01-20 08:34 +0200
        Re: Searching for files VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-01-20 06:16 -0600
        Re: Searching for files Nil <rednoise9@rednoise9.invalid> - 2025-01-22 19:57 -0500
          Re: Searching for files Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-22 23:49 -0500
          Re: Searching for files Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2025-02-21 03:18 +0200
            Re: Searching for files Nil <rednoise9@rednoise9.invalid> - 2025-02-24 13:50 -0500
              Re: Searching for files Graham J <nobody@nowhere.co.uk> - 2025-02-24 22:01 +0000
                Re: Searching for files Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-02-24 18:34 -0500
                Re: Searching for files Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2025-02-25 05:39 +0200
                Re: Searching for files GlowingBlueMist <zapbot@truely.invalid> - 2025-02-25 17:16 -0600
                Re: Searching for files Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2025-02-26 10:30 +0200
                Re: Searching for files ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ  <winstonmvp@gmail.com> - 2025-02-25 11:49 -0700
                Re: Searching for files Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-02-25 22:39 -0500
                Re: Searching for files Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2025-02-26 06:02 +0200
                Re: Searching for files Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-02-26 00:32 -0500
  Re: Searching for files knuttle <keith_nuttle@yahoo.com> - 2025-01-18 14:30 -0500
  Re: Searching for files Hank Rogers <Hank@nospam.invalid> - 2025-01-18 13:49 -0600
  Re: Searching for files "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2025-01-18 21:39 +0100
  Re: Searching for files Herbert Kleebauer <klee@unibwm.de> - 2025-01-18 21:44 +0100
    Re: Searching for files Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-01-20 03:38 +0000
  Re: Searching for files Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-18 18:00 -0500
  Re: Searching for files Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.moc> - 2025-01-19 02:10 +0300
  Re: Searching for files Paul in Houston TX <Paul@Houston.Texas> - 2025-01-18 18:17 -0600
  Off-topic: X-No-Archive header (was: Searching for files) VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-01-19 01:00 -0600
    Re: Off-topic: X-No-Archive header Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-01-20 03:22 +0000
      Re: Off-topic: X-No-Archive header "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2025-01-20 09:13 +0000
    Re: Off-topic: X-No-Archive header (was: Searching for files) Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2025-01-20 09:00 +0200
      Re: Off-topic: X-No-Archive header VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-01-20 06:31 -0600
  Re: Searching for files wasbit <wasbit@nowhere.com> - 2025-01-19 09:36 +0000
    Re: Searching for files Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-01-19 08:29 -0500
    Re: Searching for files Michael Logies <logies@t-online.de> - 2025-01-19 17:48 +0100
  Re: Searching for files Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-01-19 11:05 +0000
    Re: Searching for files Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-19 08:43 -0500
    Re: Searching for files Ken Blake <Ken@invalid.news.com> - 2025-01-19 09:43 -0700
      Re: Searching for files knuttle <keith_nuttle@yahoo.com> - 2025-01-19 14:06 -0500
        Re: Searching for files Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-19 15:12 -0500
        Re: Searching for files Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2025-01-20 08:57 +0200
          Re: Searching for files Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-20 05:37 -0500
            Re: Searching for files Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2025-01-20 17:50 +0200
              Re: Searching for files Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-20 14:09 -0500

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