Comment on Why was file search much faster in Windows XP than in subsequent versions?
leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 4 weeks agoYes, but no.
The NTFS file system does maintain an index, and software like Everything Search or WizTree can use it to produce almost instantaneous results (probably faster than back in the XP days, even with larger discs).
The problem is that Windows Search stopped using the damn index for some reason (probably to provide sponsored web results and whatnot instead of whatever you were looking for).