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A བོད་ཡིག translation of Everything has been added to the support languages for Everything. Thanks to Sonam Dawa To set Everything to use the བོད་ཡིག language: Download the language pack Everything.lng.zip Unzip Everything.lng from the language pack into the same location as your Everything.exe. Res...

Could you please confirm Everything is not running as an admin: In Everything , type in the following search and press ENTER : /debug Near the top of the debug console, you should see the following line: IsAdmin x -What is the value for x? 1 = running as admin, 0 = running as a standard user. To clo...

Thank you for your feedback.

I will consider adding a reverse image search to Everything.

Thank you for your suggestion.

But is lite version faster or using less resources? There should be no noticeable difference in CPU usage and RAM usage between the normal version and Lite version. The Lite version does have recent changes disabled by default which may reduce the RAM usage only slightly. https://www.voidtools.com/...

Please try the following call:

"C:\Program Files\Everything\Everything.exe" -name-part "%1"

https://www.voidtools.com/support/everything/command_line_options/#-name-part

Add Search Everything context menu item to all files

With Match Path disabled under the Search menu: len: will match only the basename (name part) eg: length of c:\windows\ notepad.exe is 11 characters. With Match Path enabled under the Search menu: or with the path: search modifier path:len: will match the full path and filename. eg: length of c:\win...

Do you mean Everything is not responding? Please try terminating Everything, deleting your Everything.db and restarting Everything: From the Task Manager (Ctrl + Shift + ESC) Click the Details tab. Select Everything.exe Click End Task . Click End Task . In Windows Explorer (Win + E), navigate to: %L...

To determine if the Everything client is running or not: dim hWndEverything as long hWndEverything = FindWindow("EVERYTHING_TASKBAR_NOTIFICATION", vbNullString) If hWndEverything then ' Everything is running Else ' Everything is not running ' Launch Everything.exe and wait for ' EVERYTHING_IPC_CREAT...

Exclude with the 'Everything' filter: In Everything , From the Search menu, click Organize filters... . Click the Everything filter and click Edit... . Change the Search to: !c:\users\< the username you wish to exclude >\ For example, exclude the username greg: !c:\users\greg\ Click OK . Exclude glo...

Everything uses the value &HFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUL for unknown dates. And vb.net does not like &HFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUL being passed to System.DateTime.FromFileTime Please try the following fix: Everything_GetResultDateModified(i, ftdm) If ftdm = &HFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUL Then DateModified = Nothing Else DateMod...

Correct, Everything communication over IPC is 32bit.

The Everything64.dll and Everything32.dll will work with both the x64 and x86 version of Everything.

If you are compiling your app as x64, please use the Everything64.dll.

Thank you for your reply. Could you please share your result processing code? The Everything SDK does not throw exceptions. This exception sounds like a c# / Visual Basic integer overflow exception. You might be casting a 64bit Intptr to a 32bit Intptr? Please make sure you are using the x64 version...

The SDK requires the Everything Search Client is also running. The SDK does not communicate with the Everything Service. The SDK communicates with the Everything Search Client. The Everything Search Client communicates with the Everything Service. Can you please confirm the issue occurs when the Eve...

There is normally two Everything.exe processes. One for the Everything Service and one of the Everything search client. If you terminate the Everything Service, please restart it by: In Everything , from the Tools menu, click Options . Click the General tab on the left. Check Store settings and data...

New filter example: /new.filter.locations.png Filter Name: My Filter Filter Search: "C:\Program Files\";"C:\Windows\";"C:\Users\" Just to clarify, the shortcut you create on the Desktop must specify the filter name (not the search), for example: "C:\Program Files\Everything\Everything.exe" -filter "...

I just noticed that my post didn't match what I wrote. There are 6 spaces between the dash and the word Microsoft, but only 1 space appeared in my post. Do I include those 6 spaces in the search? The forum will eat excess spaces, only one will be shown. Please include all spaces in your filter's se...

Please try the following search:

"I:\- Microsoft\Sucks big time\"|"I:\- Microsoft\As bad as Google\"

" = double quote

Is it possible to limit the scope of such a shortcut filter to multiple selected folders on selected drives, instead of entire drives? To set a filter search to multiple locations, simply search for the location with a trailing backslash and separate each location with | For example, to search: C:\...

Would doing that enable the second instance to have different option settings than the initial instance (for example, different indexed drives, different excluded filetypes, and different fonts and colors)? Yes, each instance has its own settings and data. My reason for wanting two instances is bec...

Thank you for your feedback. Could I have two simultaneous instances simply by running both an installed version and a portable version? No, normally, only one instance can exist at a time. Please try the following: Right click your Desktop and click New -> Shortcut . Click Browse... . Navigate to: ...

Issue Right clicking the result list column header and checking a column does not show that column. Cause The column width was inadvertently set to have a small width. Solution Right click the result list column header and make sure the desired column is checked. Right click the result list column ...

Thank you for your feedback and suggestions. I have added to my TODO list to add a command line option to specify the folders to index. This way a context menu item could be setup to index the selected folder only. However, at this stage, this will probably be no faster than using Windows Explorer's...

Thank you for your post and logs. Everything might be getting stuck reading the file content from a certain iFilter. Please try enabling verbose debug logging when Everything is already running: In Everything, type in the following search and press ENTER : /verbose Type in the following search and p...

Everything might be running as an admin which might prevent caplocks from being passed-through. Does setting Everything to run as a standard user help?: In Everything , from the Tools menu, click Options . Click the General tab on the left. Check Everything service . Uncheck Run as administrator . C...

To exclude files with no extension from your search, include the following in your search:
.

To exclude files with no extension from your index:

In Everything, from the Tools menu, click Options.
Click the Exclude tab on the left.
Change Exclude files to:
regex:^[^.]*$
Click OK.

Yes, all controls in the main window will be linked to Ctrl +/- zoom in a future release.

Thank you for your suggestion.

implicit very low priority suggestion to make the tooltip-path multi-line if needed

I'll make the default max tooltip width slightly smaller.
I'll add an option to customize the max width of the tooltip.
Thanks for the suggestion.

Thank you for your post and the debug log. Hard to say what the issue might be. I would need to see more debug information. My guess is Everything is crashing while trying to access a volume that has not completely awake? Could you please send the logs after waking the PC from sleep/hibernate? Make ...

Thanks for sharing. Everything uses the system short date and system short time formats by default. To change these system wide formats: From the Start menu, search for control Click Control Panel . Click Region . Change short date . Change short time . If you want a more customizable format: Click ...

Don't forget to escape spaces with double quotes ;) For example: 东西.mp4 "D:\好吃的 dongxi" As others have mentioned, you might have an easier time if you enable Match Path from the Search menu: /search.menu.match.path.png This will force Everything to match the full path and filename (instead of just t...

Please make sure Everything is installed correctly: In Everything , from the Tools menu, click Options . Click the General tab on the left. Check Store settings and data in %APPDATA%\Everything . Uncheck Run as administrator . Check Everything Service . (Please make sure this is tick-checked and not...

Changes to the Everything.ini are ignored when Everything is running. Please make sure Everything is not running when modifying your Everything.ini: In Everything , type in the following search and press ENTER : about:config This will open your Everything.ini in Notepad. In Everything , from the Fil...

Everything treats spaces as the AND operator. Everything is trying to search for: walk AND index* You most likely do not have any filenames starting with index and containing walk, hence the zero results. Please try searching for: "walk index*" -or walk" "index* Note the double quotes to escape the ...

CLI example of integrating the search capabilities of VoidTools Everything in C#. The logic is in a single static class that is compatible with both .Net Framework and .Net Core. Search results are provided by a non-greed iterator and each result is in an idiomatic class. https://github.com/dipique/...

Issue: Everything may not start after installing or running the portable version. The Installer may show the following error: Failed to execute user command Cause: A program prevents files named Everything.exe from running. Known programs to cause this: Windows Game Bar (If installed incorrectly) I...

I will consider a print option from Everything. Thank you for your suggestion. For now, please export as a CSV and format in Excel (or other worksheet editor): In Everything , type in a search to limit your results Choose your properties to export by showing/hiding columns (right click the result li...

Please try creating the following filters: In Everything , from the Search menu, click Organize filters... . Select Everything and click Edit... . Change the Search to: !f: Click OK . Click New... . Change the Name to: Backup Drive Change the Search to: f: Click OK . Click OK . Now the default "Ever...

Hi Philip Taylor,

Thank you for your offer to assist with testing Dropbox.

If you have time could you please check if Everything shows your online only files anywhere locally?

Can you access your online only files through Windows Explorer? or do you need the Dropbox app?

Everything will index your Dropbox folder as C:\Users\<your user name>\Dropbox You might wish to add your dropbox folder as an Everything filter: In Everything , from the Search menu, click Add to filters . Change Name to: Dropbox Change Search to: "C:\Users\<your user name>\Dropbox\" -where <your u...

Google Drive File System appears to work OK for me on Windows 10 X64 1903. Is your Google drive shown in Everything from Tools -> Options -> Folders -> Add? If not, please try running Everything as a standard user: In Everything , from the Tools menu, click Options . Click the General tab on the lef...

ES (the command line interface) may help you: es.exe <your search> -o <x> -n 1 where <your search> is your folder search and where <x> is the zero-based offset, eg for the 2nd item, use 1, for the 7th item use 6 etc.. For example, to find the 7th item in your c:\windows folder: es.exe parent:c:\win...

Do you want to show the 2nd/7th etc file in multiple folders?

I'll consider an option to do this.

A random sort feature is in development.

Thank you for your post. This can occur if you run Everything as an administrator. Please try running Everything as a standard user: In Everything , from the Tools menu, click Options . Click the General tab on the left. Check Everything service . Uncheck Run as administrator . Click OK . Exit Every...

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To disable thumbnail icon overlays in Everything:

In Everything, type in the following search and press ENTER:
/thumbnail_overlay_icon=0
If successful, you should see thumbnail_overlay_icon=0 in the status bar for a few seconds.

Please make sure match whole words is disabled from the Search menu.

Everything currently does not treat the Ideographic Space (U+3000) as a word separator.
This will be fixed in the next major update.

A copy of the entire support wiki as a single PDF or HTML for offline viewing:

PDF
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RegenerateUserEnvironment is exported by name which makes it easy to get the address of the function.

I only need to figure out the function's prototype, which is fairly well known.

Control Panel -> User Accounts -> Change my environment variables

Was just looking for this, thanks!

shell32.dll:RegenerateUserEnvironment works on XP x64, Windows 7 X64 and Windows 10 1909

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