

You can find QuickLook in Microsoft Windows Store however, I suggest that you get the.

Mac has this handy feature since 2007, On the other hand, Windows is lacking this feature till today. Kept "Everything" installed because it's a very solid and quick file search, and takes no resources staying in the background.QuickLook allows users to peek into a file content in lightning speed by just pressing the Space key.

I would absolutely recommend Wox, but I ended up going back to Cortana's search eventually because of Wox' small annoyances. But they are manually vetted by the developer (as git pull requests) I would think they are safe enough. But thats easy to configure away.Įverything can't index and search content of files.Īnd Wox is entirely based on plugins made by third-partys. So you will need to install both of them.īy default, if installed as a service, Everything indexes and shows every file on the drive, even if the file belongs to another user on the computer. Wox uses the "Everything" application for file searches. Might be an issue with any of the plugins. But it can search the old control panel still. Wox can't search the new "Settings" in Windows 10 currently. They fixed the 100% disk issue eventually, i believe. The re-indexing used to take a long time and 100% disk performance. To have all available features you will need your user profile language, as well as your speech recognition, need to use "en-US" culture settings.Ĭortana sometimes resets her search index, usually after bigger updates. Many of Cortanas features, like unit and valuta conversions, are only available in a few languages.

My search results are littered with 'node_module/**/*.js' files.Ĭortana also indexes the content of hidden folders.Ĭortanas calculator sometimes works, sometimes not. And then they disappear both from Explorer's file search and Cortana's search. You have to manually ignore every single folder you don't want to get into the search results. And occasionally shows the correct result, only to switch it out with something completely different a millisecond before I press "Enter".Ĭortana can't ignore folder by names.
