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Switch to Linux
Just kidding, you could use Python or something though. How exactly are you doing it currently?
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Locate32 is pretty fast once it's built up the database https://locate32.cogit.net/
Although I'd have thoughts Windows would be fairly fast nowadays unless you turned off indexing.
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@moocher
I have tens of thousands of files on a windows directory, I want to find files containing a particular string in their name. Takes ages. Any way to make this more efficient?