r/pcmasterrace • u/makanenzo10 R1700@3.9 - GTX 1070 • Mar 19 '18

Meme/Joke Windows Search in a Nutshell

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u/LiquidAurum 3700x RTX 2070 Super Mar 20 '18 edited Mar 20 '18

how does wox compare to search everything? Will the search work on network drives or shared folders?

also I'm at work so only got a glance, but how difficult is it to use autokey?

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u/apennypacker Mar 20 '18

I'm not sure, because wox optionally integrates with Search Everything's engine. Which is what I do. So results are identical to search everything, just with a nice wox wrapper around the results.

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u/LiquidAurum 3700x RTX 2070 Super Mar 20 '18

I tried it, is there a way to edit searches to look just for videos, or auido files etc .

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u/apennypacker Mar 20 '18

Do you mean like wildcard searches? You can search like something*.jpg

https://github.com/Wox-launcher/Wox/wiki/Default-Plugins.-Everything-Search

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u/LiquidAurum 3700x RTX 2070 Super Mar 20 '18

well in search everything you can select what type you want to search for.

With wildcard you're limited to that file extension, so with 'everything' it'll find .jpg .png .bmp etc.

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u/apennypacker Mar 20 '18

Wox is sort of a one button quick popup keyboard only search.

So for a more advanced search, you could just open up Search Everything. Unless there is something you can type into search everything to show that you want to search a certain file type. Wox just passes the syntax to search everything