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Windows Vista/7 File Search Trick

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Windows Vista/7 File Search Trick

Postby Zancarius » Mon Nov 22, 2010 3:10 pm

While I was writing a utility last night to accomplish roughly the same thing, I ran into this neat little trick with Explorer that I never knew about:

http://www.addictivetips.com/windows-ti ... -and-size/

Granted, even with the Windows indexing service it's still painfully slow--and slower still if you have the service disabled like I do (~15 minutes to search for files over 100 megs on 460ish gigs of data)--but it's a handy tip if you haven't seen it before.
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