How-to Guide for efficient content search in Windows

Whatever Microsoft can tell you about Windows; Windows user has one day came across searching information in his/her documents. You as Windows user has noticed that Windows was not really adapted for content search nor for finding information in an efficient way.

In this document, we give a method for searching information through all your Windows documents by using free of charge applications. This method is really efficient, and you will gain knowledge and save time.

We recommend you this:

“Checkout the process of search in Windows. If it is inefficient for your use case. We recommend you to think about switching to this method. Nobody want to waste his/her time on content search.”

We present here, the Major drawbacks of Windows search and Windows explorer:

Windows explorer:

1. Windows explorer look nice, however, it is not really adapted for efficient path switch. Nor it let you move fast through folders.
2. No Tabs Function: the Windows-explorer does not provide tabs for switching between folders. This feature can be found in finder (MAC OS) and is really useful to just move between folders when required.

Windows search :

1. Searching for a specified document or information in a document is too costly in Windows and usually you landed up without any useful document to use.
2. Windows search application: Missing. - There is not really a Windows search application, where you can just control your search.
3. The search is integrated in Windows explorer and Windows but is not really intuitive nor it does focus on what you want, nor it provide a controlled search.
4. You get too many information that you don’t really want, the user will get frustrate and will abandon very quickly his/her search, and go to the specified folder that he/her knows about to start looking for his/her document manually.
5. Required Windows search application: A Windows search application must be efficient and easy to use. Standard and Advanced views of the application can adapt to people needs.

This document provide the following solution as alternative:

Our highlight-applications boost-up your work, save time, and reach your goal through efficient search.

The highlight-applications are:

1. Everything
   1. Download Link: http://www.voidtools.com/
2. Agent Ransack
   1. http://www.mythicsoft.com
3. Free Commander
1. http://freecommander.com/en/downloads/

Application “Everything”:

The “Everything” application is a tool to search for specified files in a fast way. The application provide a command field and a table view for showing the result set. The fields of the result-table can be sorted.

Just enter the following command to get the results instantly:

• rc:last10minutes -> Get all files modified in the last 10 minutes
• *.pdf rc:last8hours -> Get all pdf files modified in the last 8 hours
• *.docx -> Get all words documents
• C:\Users -> Show you all files and folders in the specified path

There is many other commands to be discovered.

Also, you can save the entered instructions for quick access. Just go to the application website to get more help and download it.

Application “Agent Ransack”:

The application “Agent Ransack” is one of the most efficient applications in the world for content and document search. Just search for all your PDF-Documents and tell the “Agent Ransack” that you want to find the following information “XYZ..” inside it.

Just try it yourself:

• Just do a complex search using “Windows explorer”
• And do the same thing in “Agent Ransack”

Calculate the time that each application require, and whether you have reached your goal and information in each case.

This application is really great, there is no doubt. It traverse all your folders and get just what you look for.

Hint: Windows could create a “Windows search application” by just integrating the two applications “Agent Ransack” and “Everything” in one single intuitive application.

Application “Free Commander”:

The application “Free Commander” gives you an efficient way to navigate through all your working folders without losing your time.

The Major Benefits of the application:

1. You have multi tabs for different folders which let you navigate very quickly and each time you want to get just the right document in the right folder. This very important feature is not available in Windows explorer.
2. Content drag-&-drop between folders.
3. You can save your frequent folders as favorites.
4. Many other features are still to be discovered.

The Major Drawback of the application:

1. The application “Free Commander” has become old through all this years.
2. The GUI-Elements react slowly to event handling when they are clicked.
3. However, despite all this lack, it still reaches its goal to this day.

Just try it yourself:

• Just do a complex task using “Windows explorer”
• And do the same thing in “Free Commander”

Calculate the time for each application, and the degree of user’s satisfaction.