just to add to sillyness of MS (this will look like advertising but is not , I always intend to recommend better soft that I know of) example of UltraSearch app, its free, but my main point is that it reads directly from $MFT, no indexing, no nothing one has to wonder why MS never did such thing, after all they were the ones that wanted instant search with Longhorn and then reverted to slow indexing again... also, sorry if this was not replies you wanted