Everything — The Complete Guide: Instant File Search by Name Across Your Whole PC
Everything from voidtools is a Windows tool for searching files and folders by name. It builds an index of your drives, shows results as you type and updates in real time. In project folders with tens of thousands of files, it finds the right drawing or calculation sheet in a second.
Everything
voidtools
Instant file search by name across the whole PC — find the latest revision of a drawing buried in project folders.
Get it from the vendorWhat you get
- Instant results — the list updates with every letter you type.
- Real-time updates — new or changed files appear immediately.
- Light on resources — runs in the background without slowing the PC.
- Portable version — run it without installing.
- Search by part of a name — project number, sheet number or abbreviation.
Tip: finding the latest revision
If files follow a fixed naming convention — project number, sheet number and revision — type the fixed part and sort by date modified, and the latest revision comes first. Search focuses on file names rather than their contents. Licence: free for any use, including commercial; the official licence file uses MIT wording, but the source code is not published — so this is freeware, not open source.
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To search inside file contents — grepWin. To find out what takes up disk space — WizTree. For a two-pane file manager — Double Commander.
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Two-pane file manager in the Total Commander style — batch rename, archives, content search and FTP.
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A set of Windows utilities — on-screen OCR, screen ruler, bulk rename, window layouts and colour picker.
Get it from the vendorThe bottom line
Everything is one of the small tools that save the most time in an office — free, light and very fast.