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Deanna’s Freeware Spotlight: SwiftSearch
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May 20, 2019 at 2:02 am #1701794
woody
ManagerTired of trying to get Windows’ slow search routine to cooperate with your hard drive? Take a look at SwiftSearch, the freeware pick of the week from
[See the full post at: Deanna’s Freeware Spotlight: SwiftSearch]1 user thanked author for this post.
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May 20, 2019 at 3:13 am #1702218
JustAsking
AskWoody PlusThere is a similar excellent free tool which has been around for a long while: “Everything” by voidtools:
https://www.voidtools.com/downloads/
I have used it for years. Very fast. Not very resource consuming You can search for filenames and part of filenames (but not content of files).
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May 20, 2019 at 8:46 am #1705228
dwallace115
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May 20, 2019 at 6:50 am #1703419
garycahn
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May 20, 2019 at 7:04 am #1703654
Microfix
AskWoody MVPI think it pertains to just one file (don’t download it as a precaution) the website is ok otherwise. The website maintainer needs to look into it.
Probably a false+ (await response from Deanna)
Update from oldergeeks:
Wow, that’s an old one. Taking care of it. Thanks. -Randy
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May 20, 2019 at 9:02 am #1705447
Deanna McElveen
AskWoody_MVPSorry about Nirsoft’s Access PassView tripping Norton’s panic alarm. We removed the file although it is perfectly safe. I hope they don’t do the same to Nirsoft since it is an awesome utility that has been on our site for years. -Deanna OlderGeeks.com
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May 20, 2019 at 10:05 am #1705786
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May 21, 2019 at 2:44 pm #1719453
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May 22, 2019 at 4:46 am #1723985
anonymous
Guest@ stub1955: “the folder placed on the desk top can not be deleted”
Are you sure you used SwiftSearch ? SwiftSearch itself does NOT create any folders.
SwiftSearch is a “no-install” program. You simply click on the executable file to launch it, w/o having to undergro an installation process. (Note that the developer does not supply any installer version for SwiftSearch.)
And since SwiftSearch doesn’t write any settings (or any other junk) to the filesystem or registry, SwiftSearch also qualifies as “portable” — ie. you can easily move the EXE file & run it from a thumbdrive (or another disk partition).
To remove SwiftSearch, exit the program, navigate to the location where you downloaded the single EXE, & delete the file. Assuming you didn’t change the filename, it should either be SwiftSearch.exe (32-bit version), or SwiftSearch64.exe (64-bit version).
If the EXE file is locked, make sure that you hadn’t accidentally minimized SwiftSearch to the system tray (eg. by pressing ESC), & left it running in the background.
If SwiftSearch is at the system tray, double-click its icon to bring it to the foreground, & click the X on its titlebar to exit the program. You can proceed to delete the EXE file.
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June 22, 2020 at 4:06 pm #2274345
cmar6
AskWoody PlusQuestion for Deanna and other experts. Swiftsearch seems to search for file names but not contents of text files. Can anyone recommend a search for text in text files?
I have never Windows search in Win 10, since partial but unsuccessful disabling of Cortana, based on Ask Woody ideas, also disabled Windows search.
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