Windows 10: Is there a better file-search utility than the one in Win Explorer ?

The one in Windows Explorer is for too slow.
I search for a file and it says "working on it..." for ages.

Its much faster opening a CMD window and searching dir myfile*.* /s
Is there a utility that is good? (Dont mind paying a few $)

:)

 

File Explorer Search Not Working


I am trying to search in File Explorer (Windows Explorer, My Computer) and it will not find anything. I can copy text from a name in the list and paste it in the search box and it still finds nothing. I have looked at the suggestions that have been posted and nothing I find that is relative to this works. Anyone have any suggestions? I am running Win 10 Pro on an I3 coustom desktop computer.

 

setting default view for Winodws Explorer Search Reasults

Thank you for the detailed response. To change the search result's view from content to list, we suggest following the steps below:

• Open the File Explorer and try to search for files.
• In the toolbar, open the View tab and click List
  to change the view.
• Once changed, close the File Explorer.
• Open the File Explorer again and try to search to see if the setting has been retained.

After performing the steps above, reply back to us so we can provide additional help.

 

Index search in File Explorer

You can search in Windows 10 File explorer in exactly the same way as you did in Windows 7 Windows explorer. The search box in File explorer has not changed its functionality at all. If you are in, say, the My documents folder then using the search box
confines the search to that folder tree.

The question of how to set that keyboard button to open up File explorer is not as straightforward.

• That keyboard button was created by your keyboard maker and it will have been supplied with a maker's utility that assigned it the function of opening Windows explorer.
  
• This maker's utility is not part of Windows.

• You need to ask the keyboard maker for a Windows 10-compatible version of the utility.
• Unless you can find the utility in your Start menu & it turns out to be intuitive to use, you also need to ask the keyboard maker for instructions about using the utility so that you can assign that keyboard button to open File explorer [almost all these
  utilities were user customisable]. From your brief description, I think it has defaulted to opening Cortana instead.
• If the keyboard maker is no help then see if there are user forums for that brand and search them for advice about Windows 10 versions & customising the key's actions.

I would hazard the guess that the original keyboard utility is already sufficiently Windows 10 compatible. So the only real difficulty you might have is in getting instructions for customising it but even this might be easy once you find the utility [the
last time I had a keyboard with special buttons, its utility had a special section for picking the required action and it was immediately clear how to use it].

Best of luck,

Denis