title: How can I quickly search my code using Windows?
body: <p>I've got the same problem as in <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3250832/how-can-i-quickly-search-my-code-using-unix">this question</a>, except in Windows. Our product has a 100+ MB code base, and searching for stuff in there takes an awful amount of time (several minutes). It's nice when you can narrow your search to a specific subfolder, but that isn't always possible.</p>
  
  <p>I was wondering if there is some tool that would make it faster, probably by indexing. Accuracy is paramount, if a substring exists somewhere, it must be found, even if the file is not indexed or the index is out of date. Also it would be ideal if <code>.svn</code> folders would be ignored when searching.</p>
  
  <p>Failing that, I was wondering if I could make something like that myself. Is there maybe a ready made indexing engine available for such tasks? I was wondering about Windows Indexing Service (or whatever it is called these days), but so far my experience with it (the Windows standard file search facility) has been rather dismal, with it often missing files that were right in front of its nose.</p>