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no way windows search will ever replace Everything. Windows search is slow and it will not find whatever document you want 90% of the time.
"will not find whatever document you want 90% of the time" Absolute rubbish.
One question: why would I bother installing all that when I can simply use a UNIX clone which on top of that is absolutely free? And as always with Windows: oh you got PowerShell, so adorable... Here, check bash/zsh
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[ptvs proj lead here] - thanks wslh! is the cpu really going at 25% the entire time? this should definitely /not/ happen. what will happen is that when you 1st install PTVS the analyzer will run in the background for a while until the completion database is ready for pkgs you've installed. after that it should be incremental as you add new pkgs. the initial analysis may take a while if you have a very large distro (1…
I saw similar issues from other users: https://pytools.codeplex.com/workitem/1042 I have "big" packages such as NLTK. Do you recommend to leave the Visual Studio open for a while?
Is anyone using TouchCursor ( http://touchcursor.sourceforge.net/ )? I really like the idea, but I'm not sure if I should try to stick with it.
Even though I barely touch windows these days, when I do, I invariably use "everything" ( http://www.voidtools.com/ ) to find where everything is. So fast, so minimalistic. It's like locate on crack (because it shows you stuff as you type and it automatically updatedb's).
I could never understand why MS didnt just purchase Everything and embed it within Windows. I've not tried win 8.1 search, but Everything is far faster/lighter/better than WinXP+7+8 search.
My only feature request for Everything is the ability to search inside Outlook msgs and Office docs.