"Bill in Co" surly_curmudgeon@earthlink wrote

| 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.
|

AR lets you start at any level/location. Maybe
you mean doing something like excluding System32
when searching Windows?