unlike Everything , TheSearchMan’s database is encrypted and it doesn’t show ALL files at the startup.
The database of Everything is on the most wanted List of hackers as it lists all your files.

TheSearchMan is a mere 30 KB download.
It is portable also. That means NO INSTALLATION.

Unlike Everything or Locate32 which can only search in the index, TheSearchMan can do real searching,ie, in the drive with a super fast speed.

It searched my 50GB Seagate drive in a little over 2 seconds.
It has bagged many 5 stars and Top Software awards.

The interface of TheSearchMan is extremely simple.
Just enter the path and search criteria

TheSearchMan’s database is updated on the fly.

The home page is:
[venussoftcorporation.blogspot.com]

Its also been reviewed by ghacks and addictivetips.

(Using the idea of making a shortcut folder, or putting shortcuts on system32 folder to use RUN window)

1) Create a shortcut to everything.
2) On shortcut properties, change ‘target’ and add -search, example: “C:\PortableApps\Everything\Everything.exe” -search
3) I renamed the shortcut to ‘f’ to speed up usage, since ‘find’ is already a console command.

END!
If you place the shortcut on the right place, you can type for example “f firefox” an search in your computer in a friendly way.

Thanks to lifehacker for the tip: [lifehacker.com]

brunofs wrote:

Anyway to use Everything with command line?
I want to associate Everything in PATH system variable and then make searches using the window’s run.

Hmm, that’s a good question. There’s a command line version of the app available, but it’s not really targeted at what you’re looking to do. What you really need is to be able to pass parameters to the app, and then you’d definitely be able to do this. But I don’t think it works like that.

I couldn’t find (at least an easy) documentation about that command like tool.
For me, it would be very helpful the way I described, otherwise is a bit useless.

At least you can disable the windows indexing (I think) and run everything only when you need

Anyway to use Everything with command line?

I want to associate Everything in PATH system variable and then make searches using the window’s run.

Hmm, that’s a good question. There’s a command line version of the app available, but it’s not really targeted at what you’re looking to do. What you really need is to be able to pass parameters to the app, and then you’d definitely be able to do this. But I don’t think it works like that.

I want to associate Everything in PATH system variable and then make searches using the window’s run.

Example:
WINDOWS_KEY + r
(opens ‘run’ window)
find importantDocument.doc (’find’ alias is associated with everything executable)
(opens everything with importantDocument.doc search)

Any Clue ?

As a side note, it’s rather funny when this program crashes. “Everything stopped working.”

For normal files search, I use Everything.

However, although Everything search and index faster, but it does not not index file contents. Here is where Locate32 can fill in.