Mayayana wrote:
"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote

I used to open "Everything" and then leave it running. It takes a few
seconds to open, then settles down; I can use it, and it finds things
amazingly fast. It is an excellent utility!

However, of late: some minutes after I've opened it and all has settled
down, I hear my fan spin up (it is normally idling), and I start Task
Manager to see what's using CPU - and I see Everything.exe is using 25%
CPU

I don't know about mining, but it does index. You should
be able to check the former by just blocking it from going
out.

I've never tried Everything. I like Agent Ransack. Extremely
fast with no indexing. But if you have "a lot a lot" of stuff and
do a lot of searching, maybe indexing makes sense. For me,
I usually know pretty much where things are. I'm more apt
to do a search like finding which of 30 files in a folder has the
line of text I remember from an article I'm trying to find. Given
that, I think of indexing as wasteful wear and tear on disks.

I use an older version of FileLocator Pro, the big brother to Agent Ransack,
which has a lot more options, like excluding directories from searches,
which I find very advantageous. But it's not free, and unfortunately, has
gotten a bit pricey over the years. But the option to exclude directories
from searches greatly speeds up finding things, especially since I'm not
using any indexing, by choice.