Narz
keeping it real
So how come Google can search the entire Internets in .3 seconds but it takes stupid Windoze search dog 4 minutes to scan my computer's hard drive for some photo?
Thanks.
Thanks.

So how come Google can search the entire Internets in .3 seconds but it takes stupid Windoze search dog 4 minutes to scan my computer's hard drive for some photo?
Thanks.![]()
Damn them!Microsoft could give two craps about how fast you can find stuff on your computer.
locate uses a database so it's searches are much faster. Windows Vista and 7 also use some sort of indexing so they're relatively fast, but afaik, XP uses a plain old sequential search.