# Discussion of Windows Indexing / Windows Search 4

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/discussion-of-windows-indexing-windows-search-4/19266
**Category:** Off-Topic
**Created:** [August 24, 2017, 1:28pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/discussion-of-windows-indexing-windows-search-4/19266 "2017-08-24T13:28:52Z")
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### Author: ![Zerow](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/zerow/32/11379_2.png) [@Zerow](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Zerow)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2017, 1:38pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/discussion-of-windows-indexing-windows-search-4/19266/6 "2017-08-26T13:38:24Z")

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> [@poster](#):
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> The circumstance that you mention in another thread, that you start MP3Tag with every start of your computer **loading all your music files** , shows
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> - that you don't care about a possible slow down of your PC at all, and

You have misread / misunderstood

I never said I auto-start Mp3tag. On the contrary: very long time ago I stopped practicing such approach for almost all of software because of the problem you pointed out; and because ofsuch problem growing to something even badder when there is some problem with OS and I have to reboot many times in a short time [having possibly to have to stop those auto startings programs from executing themselves]

> [@poster](#):
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> - that you have a music library with less than about 50.000 files.

Yes

That what I was about to point out- than I do not have problems with [the time it takes to] search or filter within Mp3tag or FreeCommander, with the amunt that I work on [not even 20 000]

I will now reconsider turning on indexing for my archive drive, where every couple of days I search for some [most of the time music] file; which now [without indexing] takes me a considerable amount of time as I have multiple copies of my music dating years back

> [@poster](#):
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> This thread is about AQS and its advantage of fast filtering and searching with builtin windows-features to overcome the natural disadvantages of MP3Tag as a 32 bit Windows-Software (limited use of builtin RAM) and no indexing or database feature.  
> Because of the limited use of RAM it maybe necessary to filter the files before loading them in MP3Tag and because of the enormal time it takes MP3Tag to load a large music-library it is desirable to sometimes filter before and loadi only parts of the music library.

And that is also one of the reasons why I recently asked for users of Mp3tg to reveal the amount of files on which they operate upon: [/t/19147/1](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/19147/1) [it wasn't verbalized back then but it was one of my reasons for that thread of mine]

> [@Doug Mackie](#):
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> It's fine with me that you prefer a search application that does not index. But please don't label Windows Search as "defective" without furnishing evidence other than a list of complaints from the Internet. You can find complaints there about almost anything.
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> Windows Search is certainly not perfect, but I have shown that it can be a useful complement to Mp3tag. It doesn't make sense that members like Poster and LyricsView and myself, people with large collections, would tolerate a search program that bogged down our PCs or was "defective" by any serious measure.

Well it's a pity now that I cannot recall what were those problems with Search option in Windows Explorer, which were one of the two big reasons for me for switching to usage of FreeCommander and thus abandoning WE in its wholesome

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