Any plugin or options to integrate Everything into the explorer search bar?

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phantomias2023
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Any plugin or options to integrate Everything into the explorer search bar?

Post by phantomias2023 »

Hello!
Firstly, let me say how much I love everything - as someone with a bit of coding knowledge it is baffling to me how you manage to pull the searches of so quickly and without hogging the system - respect!

But my main reason for opening this post is that I would love to integrate the everything search into my explorer window search bar (Win11). I know that the context menu "Search Everything..." does exactly what windows search would do, but so much faster. So why not dunk the ms-search entirely and use Everything for.... well, everything!

I know that there is a taskbar plugin to use Everything in the taskbar search, but I am not aware of any way to integrate it into windows Explorer. If anyone knows something, or if some developer is working on it, would be glad to know!

Cheers!
Skodd
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Re: Any plugin or options to integrate Everything into the explorer search bar?

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I made a QTtabbar plugin to have a search box in my "command bar". See screenshot:
I could upload when I'm on my other laptop where it's at.

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Kai
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Re: Any plugin or options to integrate Everything into the explorer search bar?

Post by Kai »

Hello Skodd, I'm really interested in your plugin integrating Everything. Could you share the plugin please?
Skodd
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Re: Any plugin or options to integrate Everything into the explorer search bar?

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Kai wrote: Fri Nov 22, 2024 10:19 am Hello Skodd, I'm really interested in your plugin integrating Everything. Could you share the plugin please?
fyi, the everything icon in my screenshot is not part of it, it's a separate button.
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https://www.mediafire.com/file/gw7xqkej ... x.dll/file
Kai
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Re: Any plugin or options to integrate Everything into the explorer search bar?

Post by Kai »

Thank you very much Skodd for sharing it!
Unfortunately it didn't work on my environment. Maybe because I have Everything installed in a different location than yours?
C:\Program Files\Everything\Everything.exe

I'll try to solve it.
Kai
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Re: Any plugin or options to integrate Everything into the explorer search bar?

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Kai wrote: Thu Nov 28, 2024 10:11 am Thank you very much Skodd for sharing it!
Unfortunately it didn't work on my environment. Maybe because I have Everything installed in a different location than yours?
C:\Program Files\Everything\Everything.exe

I'll try to solve it.
It worked after I moved Everything.exe to
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it's perfect.

Thank you again!
horst.epp
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Re: Any plugin or options to integrate Everything into the explorer search bar?

Post by horst.epp »

Kai wrote: Thu Nov 28, 2024 10:49 am
Kai wrote: Thu Nov 28, 2024 10:11 am Thank you very much Skodd for sharing it!
Unfortunately it didn't work on my environment. Maybe because I have Everything installed in a different location than yours?
C:\Program Files\Everything\Everything.exe

I'll try to solve it.
It worked after I moved Everything.exe to
image.png

it's perfect.

Thank you again!
This sounds strange !
You can't make an x86 Everything to a x64 version just by copying and renaming.
It looks like you have installed an x86 version.
Remove it and install the x64 version.
Kai
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Re: Any plugin or options to integrate Everything into the explorer search bar?

Post by Kai »

It worked fine.
I think it was 64 version but with just different exe file name.
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