Horus Search

Search Bar Spotlight-like for Windows 10

Welcome to Horus Search Readme!

Hi! I'm Nuked and I've decided to create this little program that looks DECENT to me and does a similar job of the Spotlight feature on OS X on Windows.

What HORUS SEARCH does (for now):

• Searches all the files on the MFT in all the NTFS partitions on your PC;
• Creates a DB and uses it to categorize the results;
• Implements the Levenshtein algorithm for basic search capabilities;
• Memorizes the apps that you frequently launch and prioritizes them in the search results;
• Updates the main DB every 30 minutes;
• Shows the full preview of PDF, HTML, TXT, Images, Videos, Music files;
• Detects the dark/light theme on Windows 10 and changes it accordingly.

What HORUS SEARCH will do in the future:

• Have a settings window;
• Optimize the way to refresh the main DB;
• Show the length of the music/video;
• Show the preview of excel/doc/power-point and other types of common files;
• Implement external plugins;

HORUS SEARCH Short-Cut

• Press ALT+SPACE to recall HS
• Type horus:reset to clear the main DB
• Type horus:restart to restart
• Type horus:kill to close HS

INSTALLATION AND FIRST START-UP

• The installer will copy the program in the Program Files directory of your PC, sets it to start when Windows boots, and launch it;
• HS will create a new database in C:\ProgramData\HorusSearch\ containing the list of all the files in your PC;
• After that, you can use it normally.

Dependencies

• Your system needs to be 64bit;
• For the current version, you will need at a minimum Visual C++ Redistributable Packages for Visual Studio 2015
• Your system needs to have at least the .NET Framework 4.7 installed;

How To Build

• Include Reference to System.Windows.Forms
• Include Reference to System.Imaging
• Via NuGet: CefSharp, System.Data.SQLite, Microsoft.Data.Sqlite,FluentWpf
• Include External Reference to NtfsReader.dll

Notice

• I don't take ANY responsibility on ANY damage that this program will do to your system;
• This program has been tested successfully on a RYZEN 7 2700X - 16GB RAM - NVIDIA RTX 2070 - 1 TB AVAILABLE ON 4TB TOTAL SPACE
• On the test system it took about 2 minutes to index 3 TB of files on 8 different partitions.

External library used

• [CefSharp] (https://github.com/cefsharp/)
• [NtfsReader] (https://sourceforge.net/projects/ntfsreader/)

Some screenshots