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After numerous attempts to find a Good-old-XPlike Search utility, my quest is over!

http://www.easexp.com/xsearch/

Freeware, no indexing, XP-like - No more Everything, Agent Rancsack etc - XSearch is The One!

Yes!, thank you for posting this.

Another good free one is FileLocator Lite (rebranded version of Agent Ransack): http://www.mythicsoft.com/filelocatorlite and another commercial one is FileSearchEX: http://goffconcepts.com/products/filesearchex/

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Links to some general topics:

● Compare Start Menus

● Read the Search box usage guide.

I am a Windows enthusiast and did Classic Shell's testing and usability/UX feedback.

Great, thanks. I'll try this one too.

You haven't stumbled upon Search Agent Ransack yet, huh?

It goes way back. Very simple and very advanced; you can do anything with it. It's freeware, and I think it's put out by some very prestigious company; I don't know much about that. Agent Ransack became quite geek-popular quite a few years ago when there was word that Microsoft was somehow seeing and saving people's private search data. Agent Ransack didn't do that.

You know, way back in the days when such thoughts were considered paranoia, amongst the snowdons of yesteryear.

http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack

Thank you I find even with Classic Shell The searching is a bit iffy.
I do like:
Everything
Though, It has a nice simple search.

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I also liked Everything, for a while, it was very simple, though i wish it had better integration with windows (like could replace it entirely, but where users would still type search terms in the search box for every window, also it was just a little to basic, i ended up settling with ransack cause of all the advanced features.. but everything is definitely the fastest

I will see if I can try and replace the Classic Shell search with Everything, Since I like it better

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Everything is simply superb, I use it a lot (have assigned Ctrl+Shift+F) to open its window. But it doesn't do content search, nor network shares. So I use 3 programs to search now depending on the type:
- Indexed stuff (Classic Start Menu which has Windows Search integration)
- Non-indexed file name only search (Everything)
- Non-indexed search with contents using IFilters (FileLocator Pro)
- Indexed search on the network (Add those shares to Libraries and then use Windows Search/Classic Start Menu)
- Non-indexed search on the network for contents (FileLocator Pro)

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Links to some general topics:

● Compare Start Menus

● Read the Search box usage guide.

I am a Windows enthusiast and did Classic Shell's testing and usability/UX feedback.

I have taken I look at a few other programs here but none cut it like Everything in my opinion, Just with simple file searchs

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