Speed of Light

Internet searches are blindly fast because most questions come up frequently, and there's a file of answers that the system prepared earlier.

You need local storage for data that is specific to you.

comes up blindly fast, but it took me a year to get the original .pdf file. Of course once I'd done it, John May in England pointed out that the published had sold me a really crummy scan, and he sent me a better one (which is what is now displayed). That didn't happen overnight either.

Settings -> Search -> Searching Windows -> then set it to Enhanced, and ensure you set it to index what locations you want to be indexed.

But people often turn the indexing service off completely cuz it can be annoying

bitrex snipped-for-privacy@example.net wrote in news:R074J.132536$ snipped-for-privacy@fx41.iad:

The drive's file system "FAT" or allocation table or whatever should be the first search if file names are being sought. If a contents search, that is a different story. I have always hated "indexing" by Windows, when they should have written utility code that searches directly without "an index on the side".

So I turn it off except for the main OS drive, which I do not install apps on.

windows search is a terrible piece of shit. MS seems hell bent on making it harder to find or use with each version of windows after windows 98. It's garbage, even if you have indexing enabled.

The article that's being referred to

seems to be about the special needs team at apple that cobbles together ios for their phones.

Yeah that it defaults to searching file contents also makes no sense, I can't think of a time I've ever wanted to use the file explorer to like, find something in a text file _somewhere_ on the drive.

bitrex snipped-for-privacy@example.net wrote in news:vLa4J.28689$ snipped-for-privacy@fx11.iad:

Just open a Linux session and use grep. :-)

Along with its friends find and pipe... Or, if you're only looking for a file, locate.