Is there a smarter Find files utility for Windows 8 than Windows key + F? [closed]

AstroGrep is extremely powerful and allows the use of regular expressions, but can do simple keyword searching as well:

1. Open the Start Screen
2. Type in indexing options
3. Select Advanced ⇨ File Types
4. Select Index Properties and File Contents instead of the default of Index Properties

If you launch the Windows 8 start menu and start typing it should search files on your system with you having to know the name or where it is. I believe this also searches applications that have search providers.

While Google doesn't promote it anymore, you can still find download for Google Desktop. Just, ahem, google it. :-)

I used to use it quite a bit. It's excellent for searching by contents across all your data: files, email, internet, etc.

Kinda sad they don't support it anymore.

You could try also:

• Everything Search Engine

• SearchMyFiles

Just my 2 cents, hope it could help.