Windows Quick Search Extremely Slow

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How to speed up Windows 7 search?

My windows 7 computer has been very sluggish lately and one of the main areas I've noticed is the quick search (windows key type what you want press enter). I have been playing with the indexing and that doesn't seem to be the problem. Have searched online with very little luck.

Does anyone know how I can speed this up/fix it? Windows + r seems to be speedy still, but other than that I can't really give much more insight to this problem.

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Declining search performance can have numerous reasons (e. g., an increasing number of files).

The Everything search engine is magnitudes faster than the built-in search.

Speed aside, it has a few additional features that useful (e. g., support for regular expressions).