"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote

| I had never thought of Explorer as a search program. Probably because
| (to me anyway) it's UI (for that function) is very non-intuitive.

That's why I said "modified Explorer". Explorer is
a GUI presentation of the file system. It's just
a fancy listing with icons. Everything seems to be
the same basic idea, but with search added.

So while most search tools do their thing and
show you a list, Everything shows you a GUI
representation.

Unless something has changed, Windows search is
actually an Explorer Bar -- a shell extension window
that docks on the left side of Explorer windows. But
I don't think I've seen that ever since that obnoxious
puppy cartoon when I first tried XP.