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Now in Windows 8 it's even more frustrating since its only half broken!
Making it even more frustrating, you think it's gonna be helpful, you wait....
well if you got more than 1 potentially relevant results... it's a total mess to use.... 
I fall into their trap, I click on open in new window!
But my hopes were soon crushed... it doesn't show the location, the location bar says....
Search Result > A file
You dip sh*t...
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It is quite amazing you can search the world (Internet) easier than you can search your own desktop.
I use c:\>findstr /I /S "text"
(ignore case, search subs)
if searching for file with certain text.
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There's a certain outgoing IP number, where if blocked via firewall, will result in you not being able to surf the net at all in later windows versions. The call is originating from the explorer process or other assoc modules.
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I am not a big fan of command lines! 
But perhaps I could write a shell extension? Mm....
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I ended up getting so frustrated with it that I wrote my own contents search that used one thread per CPU core and one for the GUI. Was much faster than the windows search (that didn't work anyway).
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Don't get Ron started again.
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Haha! Please start! 
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Ultra File Search Lite. Done.
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Hey! That was shorter than I anticipated!
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Thats why I wrote my own search tools and disabled theirs.
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As an alternative to the other suggestions I'd like to add Total Commander[^]. The search abilities are outstanding, plus you get a whole lot of other stuff as well. Synchronizing directories, ftp client and a Multi rename tool are among the things I use.
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I can't live without TC for last 15 years 
Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer.
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Works fine in Windows 10, finds the relevant files and takes me straight to them. Most odd, why would Microsoft want to make my life so easy?
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Don't hasty! it's bad too!
Let's say your first pick is unsatisfactory, you go back and... it searches again!!!
Take like 1 minute each time (for me, in huge folder like program file or my whole programming folder), make it so painful to look at more than 1 result.... 
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Sorry, not sure I understand what you are saying. I have never had a problem with Explorer searches from Windows 95 onwards. Maybe I'm just lucky and always find what I want first time.
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Easy too emulate ...
Let's say you have a "Dev" folder. with all the code you ever downloaded or write in research mode.
Let say there was a day you did something cool with FilePicker for example.
Then you search FilePicker on the huge directory.
Usually there is like 278 matches and the search might take up to a minute...
Are you telling me you never did such search? Or it is always instant for you? Or it always have one obvious single relevant result?! 
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Super Lloyd wrote: Let's say you have a "Dev" folder. with all the code you ever downloaded or write in research mode.
Unfortunately I don't, so I cannot emulate it. However I did just search my Visual Studio directory for a word that I knew existed in lots of source files and it came back (almost) instantly, with just under 100 finds.
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Instantly hey?
Mm....
Well it's not instant for me! 
And every time I go back from a search result-record to the result pane.. it searches again... slowly...
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This[^] works remarkably well -- but, since it turned up, there are now a few more that work similarly on http://nonags.com[^]
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Well, I actually don't need a direct replacement as I don't need the collaboration part of it. Ideally what I'm looking for is a prebuilt solution that basically manages file hosting. I would love for it to be integrated into Active Directory for editing and read only permissions. I would also like it to have the ability to add tags or searchable strings for each file to ease in locating it. Currently we use Sharepoint and simply have everything broken down into directories that the users have to manually comb through. Any help will be much appreciated and sorry if I have this in the wrong forum.
*Update: Found out that MS does have a free version of Sharepoint called Sharepoint Foundation that's a stripped down version of it that you can use for free. Currently have it installed and it fits the bill. The use of the MS style ribbon menu makes it a bit clunky though.
Thanks again for everyone's input and help!
modified 15-Feb-17 8:02am.
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What kind of files do you want to store? If they're mostly documents, spreadsheets, presentations, eBooks etc, then there is a good cloud-based solution about to launch that indexes (using Solr) everything you upload making search quick and easy.
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Mostly operating manuals in PDF, but some other files, including some PLC programs and the like.
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milo-xml wrote: and sorry if I have this in the wrong forum.
You need the one titled "Sharepoint", rather than "The Lounge".
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Thanks. Didn't see that yesterday.
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When SharePoint first came out with that ridiculously expensive licensing I ended up making a "replacement" for it on my own. It's simply designing a secure web portal that uses Active Directory credentials. Then underneath the hood you manage web folders containing uploaded documents from each user. You use a database (ie. MySQL or SQL Server) to keep track of who owns what and what is the latest version of the document. And Voila! You have the core of what makes SharePoint work. The rest of SharePoint are interesting web parts, etc that you can build on. But for your purposes a simple secure web portal will do the trick. And you will save money in the end.
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