Everyone aware of a program  called 'Everything'? I'd say it's the most impressive free Windows utility I've seen & used in 35 years of using a computer. It substitutes for the Windows Explorer search. It sits down in your hidden notification area, uses no resources that I've noticed, and you search from it just like the Windows way. You know how frustrating it is when you know what folder somethings in; you navigate to that folder, search within it, and you watch that stupid green progress bar taking forever before, or even if it returns anything?

'Everything' will show results instantaneously; as fast as you can type. When I first saw that, I almost fell off my chair! The other difference between it & Windows, is that it builds an Index of your entire systems' drives, internal & external. I have (2) 2TB internals, and (3) 4TB externals, each drive half full, and it indexed millions of files in about 10 minutes total! Wicked useful.

http://www.voidtools.com/