How to make everything results prioritize user files on top results

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nousername
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How to make everything results prioritize user files on top results

Post by nousername »

And not some(thousands of) random files and folders. Just like in launchy. Please don't ask me to use it instead.
void
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Re: How to make everything results prioritize user files on top results

Post by void »

Files are in order of the current sort (eg: name, size or date modified).
A relevance sort is on my TODO list.

To limit your results to your user folder c:\users\<your username>, search for:
"c:\users\<your username>\"
where <your username> is your username.

Searching for
\<your username>
would also return similar results and might be easier to type (provided there's no spaces in your username -you'll need to escape spaces with double quotes).

If you find you are using this search often, please consider adding a filter:
  • From the Search menu, click Add to filters....
  • Change Name to: User files
  • Change Search to: "c:\users\<your username>\"
  • where <your username> is your username.
  • Click OK.
While not quite what you want, Everything does have a run count property for files. When sorting by run count, files with the highest run count are shown first.
You can set the run count for a file by either, running it, or right clicking the file and clicking on Set run count..
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