(Guide/Review) Add Everything Search to the Windows Taskbar for even faster searches

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Add Everything Search to the Windows Taskbar for even faster searches

Everything Search is without doubt one of the fastest search tools that is available for the Windows operating system. It is a lot faster than the built-in Windows Search tool as it returns results nearly instantly, and supports lots of customization options to optimize searches.

 

To name just a few features: in-content search options, support for complex queries, RegEx, Bookmarks, Folder indexing options, and support for custom searches.

 

 

EverythingToolbar is an open source program that adds Everything Search to the Windows Taskbar. You get a search field on the taskbar once everything is set up to type your searches directly from the taskbar.

 

Attention: Note that EverythingToolbar requires Everything, and that the search program needs to run in the background for the toolbar search functionality to work. The installer is compatible with Windows 10 and requires the .NET Framework 4.7 according to the system requirements.

Setup and configuration of Everything Search on the Windows Taskbar

Setup requires a couple of steps.

1. The first thing you need to ensure is that Everything Search is running in the background. You can run a portable version or install it to automate the process as it is set to start with Windows by default. You can download the files from the official Voidtools site. Everything is available as a 32-bit and 64-bit version.
2. Download the latest EverythingToolbar release from the GitHub repository.
3. Extract the zip archive to your system.
4. Open the folder of the archive, right-click on the install.cmd file and select "Run as Administrator" to install the toolbar. You can check the script first by loading it in a plain text editor such as Notepad.
   1. Attention: You may get a Windows Smartscreen error.
5. The installer opens a command prompt window to display the final status of the installation. Just close that window.
6. Right-click on the Windows Taskbar (a  free space) and select Task Manager.
7. Restart the Explorer.exe process in the Task Manager by selecting it and then the restart button.
8. Right-click on the taskbar and disable "Lock the taskbar" to allow moving items around on the taskbar.
9. Right-click on the taskbar again and select Toolbars > Everything Toolbar to add the new toolbar to the Windows taskbar.
10. Increase or decrease the size of the search field, and move it around, e.g. to the left side.
11. Right-click on the taskbar and enable the Lock the taskbar option.

You can uninstall the toolbar at any time by right-clicking on the uninstall.cmd file in the EverythingToolbar folder and selecting the "run as administrator" option.

 

Searches work as fast as in Everything Search; you may notice that the default listing is of limited use, as it only displays file or folder names, and modification dates. If you get multiple filenames of the same name, you may not be able to distinguish between them.

 

 

Right-click on the EverythingToolbar and activate the "Detailed View" option to add path information to the results listing.

 

You may also enable the following options:

• Regular Expressions
• Match Case
• Match Path
• Match Whole World
• Sort by

Most search parameters come from Everything Search directly, e.g. which files, locations and data gets indexed.

Closing Words

Adding Everything Search to the Windows 10 taskbar may appeal to users who use the search tool regularly. You could also set up a keyboard shortcut to trigger the program window whenever you need it, but options are always fine. Windows Search continues to function, and it sits on top of the taskbar.

 

EverythingToolbar offers a good option for Everything Search users to integrate the search functionality deeper into Windows.

 

 

Add Everything Search to the Windows Taskbar for even faster searches

 

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How to integrate Everything search in the Windows 10 taskbar

 

 

Windows 10 users can now integrate the Everything search engine directly into the Windows taskbar using the new 'EverythingToolbar' application.

 

If you are a user of voidtool's Everything search engine for Windows, you know what a terrific search tool it is for Windows. However, to search for files and data, you need to perform your searches using the Everything app.

 

Everything app

 

This week, developer Stephan Rumswinkel released a new open-source application called EverythingToolbar that lets you integrate an Everything search field directly into the Windows 10 toolbar.

 

This field displays instant search results from the Everything index, includes keyboard shortcut navigation, customizable 'Open with..' commands, and supports light/dark/medium themes, as shown below.

 

EverythingToolbar integrated into Windows 10 taskbar

 

A nice feature of the Everything Toolbar is creating customized 'Open with...' commands that can be used for all search results or only those that match path and file name using regular expressions.

 

Some examples of customized Open with commands shared by the developer are shown  below.

 

Name	Type	Regular Expression	Command
Open terminal here...	Any		cmd /K "cd %path%"
Total Commander (Left)	Any		totalcmd /O /L=%path%
Total Commander (Right)	Any		totalcmd /O /R=%path%
MSPaint	File	.*\\PixelArt\\.*(bmp|BMP)	mspaint %file%

 

Installing EverythingToolbar

Users can compile the EverythingToolbar from the source code, or you can download a precompiled version directly from the project's GitHub page. Before installing, you need to make sure you have NET Framework 4.7 and Everything 1.4.1 or later installed.

 

Once installed, you can enable the search toolbar by right-clicking the Taskbar, selecting Toolbars, and selecting 'Everything Toolbar,' as shown below. If it does not show up the first time, try one more time as a bug prevents it from being seen immediately in some cases.

 

Enable the Everything Toolbar in the taskbar

 

If you already use Everything in Windows 10, this is a great additional tool that makes it even easier to use the search engine.

 

 

Source: How to integrate Everything search in the Windows 10 taskbar