You can create a customized registry entry that will add
Search selected FOLDER with Everything to a folder's context menu. It also adds an icon to the context menu entry. Here are conditions you will need to take into account to get it working on your computer:
* On my computer (Windows 8.1), I run
Everything from
C:\Everything (change this path to match where
Everything is on your computer)
* The context menu icon I use is here:
C:\Everything\Everything.ico
The registry entry looks like this:
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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\Search selected FOLDER with Everything]
"Icon"="\"C:\\Everything\\Everything.ico\""
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\Search selected FOLDER with Everything\Command]
@="\"C:\\Everything\\Everything.exe\" -path \"%1\""
Copy the text above and save it as a file named
Search selected FOLDER with Everything.reg Merge it into the Registry (double-click on the file to merge).
Now, when you right-click on a folder in the folder tree,
Search selected FOLDER with Everything will appear on the context menu (including an icon). Clicking on the entry will open an
Everything window with that folder's - and its sub-folders' - contents listed. Move the cursor to the end of the search bar, then you can then start typing your search terms to filter down to what you are looking for. In the following screenshot, I right-clicked on the
C:\Windows\System32 folder, then told
Everything to find all .DLL files in the folder (it will also find all .DLL files in that folder's sub-folders):
You can enable a context menu to search starting at the root of a disk drive using the following data:
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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\Search selected DRIVE with Everything]
"Icon"="C:\\Everything\\Everything.ico"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\Search selected DRIVE with Everything\Command]
@="\"C:\\Everything\\Everything.exe\" -path \"%1\""