On Sat, 16 Mar 2019 16:07:29 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote:

In message , Mayayana
writes:
"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.

You're right - I'd forgotten I have an indication (both graphical and
audible) (both directions) of net traffic, and that's silent, so it
isn't mining. I didn't think it was, really. (Though would mining
involve a lot of net traffic, or just a bit to fetch and a bit to return
the results?)

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.

They're different purposes: Everything works on filenames, Agent Ransack
on file contents.


No. Everything works on file names. Agent Ransack works on file
contents *or* file names. Agent Ransack is obviously better for
contents, since Everything doesn't do that, but Everything is *much*
faster (as I'm sure you know) for file names.