Installation methods

1. WinGet : winget install lin-ycv.EverythingPowerToys
   • WinGet comes preinstalled with Windows 11 and Windows 10 version 1809+
   • WinGet package needs to go through manual review process; therefore when a new release is published, there's a delay before it becomes available.
   • Winget dependencies will check for Powertoys
     • Does NOT check for dependency version, so package validation doesn't fail when new PT version isn't reviewed yet.

   Everything is NOT listed as a dependency, as you can choose to use either 1.4 : winget install voidtools.Everything or 1.5a : winget install voidtools.Everything.Alpha

2. Chocolatey : choco install everythingpowertoys
   • Chocolatey needs to be installed separately
   • Chocolatey packages also need a review process, but it's automated, and usually approved within 6 hours of a new version being published
   • Chocolately dependencies will only check for Everything 1.4, as 1.5a is not available on chocolatey
     • PowerToys Chocolately package does not install when listed as a dependency (#55)
3. Self-Extraction Installer (EXE) :
   • Automatically extracts files to %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\PowerToys\PowerToys Run\Plugins
   • Some AV will detect the installer as malicious, either allow the EXE or use the ZIP file instead
   1. Exit Powertoys
   2. Run EXE
   3. Restart PowerToys
4. Manual Installation (ZIP) :
   1. Exit Powertoys
   2. Extract the folder in the zip file to %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\PowerToys\PowerToys Run\Plugins
   3. Restart PowerToys

Plugin settings for Everything in PT Run will appear at the bottom of the settings page.

Both Everything and PowerToys needs to be installed *This plugin does not work with the lite version of Everything, lite does not support IPC if you are on 1.5 alpha, you need to Disable alpha Instance, read https://github.com/lin-ycv/EverythingPowerToys/issues/74#issuecomment-1925755705

Full Changelog

• Added prefix option in settings #115
  • Setting prefix to .pdf would limit all results to be pdf files (note the space after .pdf)
  • Setting prefix to doc: would limit all results to document files (space not needed after prefix)
  • Can also use custom filters created in settings.toml
• Fixed exact term searching conflicts #117 @mike406
• Removed feature where double quotation " enables path matching
  • If you want to search path but don't want to enable path matching in settings, use \
    • \program windows would search for any file containing windows that also contains program in the file path
• Changed Everything query method to avoid issues with deeply nested results
• Reverted back to dllimport
• Split ARM64 from x64, as the unified version did not work #112
• Spanish translation @jmalarcon

the included Everything64.dll and EverythingARM64.dll is the official dlls from VoidTools

Compiled works are released under MIT, while source is EPL-2.0