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I've always had issues with the microsoft file finder. Namely its speed, and if you let it make use of the index service, its even more nasty habit of skipping the one thing you were actually looking for. At this time, this file finder doesnt let you look inside the file, nor, at this time does it do last altered or created times. However, it is a lot faster, for just looking.. More improvements to come I guess. The first time this runs it might not seem that fast, but try again, once it seems to have looked through the hard disk, it flys!
Im guessing there are bugs. In fact, who am I kidding, there are almost certainly bugs. If it crashes explorer, Im sorry, working out why might be a pain, but please, if it crashes, dont shout at me, just uninstall it, and tell me what you had been doing so I may try and fix it, and wait for the next version to come along. Send me feedback!
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If you're interested in how this was made.. I may publish source later, but, the basic principles and ideas are set out here in the file finder source, its just been adapted to work within the explorer environment.
How to use!
As it turns out, apparently its not as clear as I thought on how to use this. So, once you installed it, you should find that under your normal explorer view, eg, click on "My Computer" and say "C drive" or, windows key + E, you should be able to right click on files/folders/drives and see a new option as show in the graphic top right, showing "Find Files" which on clicking you should see the second graphic. Showing how to set some options. If you select No files, well you wont see a list of files, if you select directory size, you'll see the total file size for the directory, if you select show size for each file matching the specification you'll get a size.. If you select the size limit, you should fill in the size (or it will assume 0!) and you can pick equal, greater or less than and specify your value was in bytes, Kb, Mb, or Gb. Then only files matching the criteria *and* falling into the size limits will be shown.. etc.