Basic Searching in Specific Directories

New in Find+Run Robot v2

You can now tell FARR where to look for files and folders by providing a full (or partial) directory path in your search query,

Normally when you use FARR you just type in some letters from the name of a program you want to launch which is located on your start menu.

However, sometimes you may want to locate a file or a directory which may be located someplace else on your hard drive that you don't have configured on your normal search paths.

Or alternatively, you may want to use FARR as a kind of incremental auto-completing file browser (or dos Run box replacement).

To use this new functionality in FARR v2, just start typing the directory you want to search, like:

C:\Program Files\

As you type, FARR will begin to show you matching directories and files.

Note that you don't have to type out the full directory names, just enough to help FARR disambiguate between the possibilities, but by using full directories FARR will be able to search faster as it has less possibilities to consider.