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I need a tool to find files (by name pattern, or by content) under Windows, that supports correctly the 64 bit environment.
The embedded search tool in Windows 7 is great for indexed content, but does not work well if you have to find files in system folders and program files (e.g, all the instances of a DLL in the system). 32 bit third party tools often don't work well in the 64 bit environment, due to the redirection of system32 and program files.
What tool can I use?
1I'd been wondering if I was the only one doing that. :) – MetalMikester – 2010-10-06T18:44:42.147
Nice, but not user friendly. – Wizard79 – 2010-10-06T19:51:38.163
what specifically is not user-friendly about it? That it's command line and not GUI? Or is it the way it outputs the results or something? – Robert S Ciaccio – 2010-10-06T22:32:45.047
@calavera: yes, being command line makes it not user friendly. And also the output is less useful: you can't right click or double click a result. – Wizard79 – 2010-10-07T07:28:42.297
@Lorenzo: As a software developer myself, I'm a bit surprised that you find the command line to be unfriendly. True, you can't right click or double click a result. However, you can pipe or log it, and you can get all the same information about the files (right click) or open the files (double click) from the command line that you can get in any GUI interface. I suppose it just takes being a bit more used to using the keyboard rather than a mouse. – Robert S Ciaccio – 2010-10-07T14:50:51.927
@calavera: I think that a proper GUI is much more user friendly, easy to use and powerful than a command line. Relying on a textual command prompt may be geekly cool, but in practice is just a sixties legacy I firmly oppose. – Wizard79 – 2010-10-17T21:15:14.407
@Lorenzo: 60's legacy? LOL, you better get to work converting the 10's of thousands of command line tools if you ever hope to be able to do all of your software developer duties in the GUI then :) – Robert S Ciaccio – 2010-10-18T00:58:05.083