XYplorer Beta Club

Everything from voidtools has gone a long way. We are now on 1.5 (still called alpha, but should be out "soon" -- means in the coming 2 or 3 years likely).

Serious: Everything 1.5 is stable and production ready and has many new cool features (duplicate search for example). xplorer² v6.3 was released recently. Additions in current build 6.302 include:

* Integration with Everything. xplorer² ultimate can talk to the popular ES search tool for super fast name searches.

That was when I got bit envious that AFAIK XYplorer does not have a native Everything integration. Could you have a new look Don and see if / how the integration could be done. I think that would be a worthwhile addition. I think that is my second to last wish besides the 64 version :-)

The last is an ARM release btw.

rpnfan wrote: ↑01 Oct 2021 13:26 I understand your thoughts, although a search will always take some time. I also hat indexing services in general. In contrast Everything uses the NTFS file table which is there and updated from the OS anyways. It just reads the file table once (takes maybe a minute or whatever) and then will just monitor the NTFS file table -- so no extra overhead indexing going on at all.

I suddenly noticed there was an answer to me years ago that i missed. Nope, as i stated i always have indexing disabled, so there are no "updated from the OS anyways".
Don't have anything against your wish to have this integrated, optionally of course. I'm really glad with astonishing XY's search speed, especially since it's real and only when i need it.

This is _not_ Windows indexing!

Even when you have indexing disabled the NTFS file table is kept up-to-date, because the OS needs to know where each file is. The NTFS tables being in the book-keeping anyways, thus no extra overhead, is exactly what makes the Everything approach so smart.

Result is that you have instant search results, in contrast to whatever "fast" could mean. Just as a practical test I searched on my main SSD drive for a specific name. XY took more than 40 seconds to go through the HD. Everything displays the search results in real-time -- as you type. What is not to like about having instant search results?

So I think every file manager should integrate the option to give instant results! Sure, I can start Everything to run searches, which I do dozens of times each day. But having that integrated to a file manager just makes most sense, so you do not have to jump back and forth between the two. Which I have to do now.

IIRC Don has commented on this somewhere, about how he doesn't want dependencies on 3rd party dlls. But seemed open to having it loosely coupled like how we have optional External Copy Handlers (and we can set it to eg. TeraCopy), which would still work.

Anyway +1 this , hope it's still on the todo list. tbh, Microsoft themselves should have incorporated it, it's just that good.

It's on the list.

jaywalker32 wrote: ↑30 Apr 2026 09:35 Anyway +1 this , hope it's still on the todo list. tbh, Microsoft themselves should have incorporated it, it's just that good.

That is true. I always wondered why MS did not use it themselves in the first place or at least adopt it once you realize that this makes most sense.

Huge fan of Everything (including es cli) and XYplorer! Having a loose integration to access the incredible speed of Everything results from within XYplorer would be incredible!

jchapz30 wrote: ↑09 May 2026 03:03 Huge fan of Everything (including es cli) and XYplorer! Having a loose integration to access the incredible speed of Everything results from within XYplorer would be incredible!

Look into the Script exchange forum
to find a way getting you're Everything GUI results into an XY paper folder.

I simply created a button and assigned the command `open "C:\Program Files\Everything\Everything.exe";` to the left-click action. Everything opens, I enter a search term, and the search result is displayed in XYplorer. It wouldn't be any faster even if it were built-in.

Since you have to double-click in Everything to display the search result in XYplorer, you would actually save one mouse click by using XYplorer directly—since in XYplorer, you still have to click "Search Now." :-)

7iben wrote: ↑15 Jun 2026 09:20 I simply created a button and assigned the command `open "C:\Program Files\Everything\Everything.exe";` to the left-click action. Everything opens, I enter a search term, and the search result is displayed in XYplorer. It wouldn't be any faster even if it were built-in.Bildschirmfoto 2026-06-15 um 09.17.17.png

There will be nothing displayed inside XY.
Everything displays the search results in its own Window
which is not usable at all inside of XY.

Sorry, I didn't express myself clearly. When I click my "Everything" button, the "Everything" search window opens. I enter the search term there, and the result appears in real-time without needing to press another button. Then, I double-click the search result, and it appears instantly in XYplorer. This only works if XYplorer is set as the default file manager, and the double-click action is configured within "Everything". You can also set the search window to close automatically afterwards. In XYplorer, on the other hand, you have to open the search window first (unless you keep it open all the time), enter the search term, and click "Search Now"; the results don't appear in real-time as you type. However, this might work if you integrate "Everything" into XYplorer. For me, "Everything" acts as a floating window—I can launch it from XYplorer or use "Everything" directly.