Add option for disabling search result icons entirely

[h0rn3z0r]

Preflight Checklist

• I have fully read the README and it did not solve the problem.
• I have searched all open and closed issues for the same bug report without success.

EverythingToolbar Version

1.3.3.0

Everything Version

1.4.1.1024 (x64)

Windows Version

Windows 10 22H2

Steps to reproduce

1. Open Resource Monitor and select Disk tab
2. Open EverythingToolbar and apply my settings shown below
3. Start scrolling down
4. Notice how explorer.exe tries to access every file found

Expected Behavior

No disk usage, file info should be read from index stored in RAM, like Everything does

Actual Behavior

EverythingToolbar retrieves info directly from disk, but all necessary properties (path, last modified and file size) are already indexed

Screenshots

Log output

2024-06-09 15:33:19.6334|INFO|CSDeskBand.CSDeskBandWpf|EverythingToolbar 1.3.3.0 started. OS: Microsoft Windows NT 10.0.19045.0|
2024-06-09 20:05:23.1063|INFO|EverythingToolbar.EverythingSearch|Everything version: 1.4.1|

Additional Information

No response

[srwi]

Hi @h0rn3z0r, this is caused by reading the file icons from disk. Once I disable that in code, disk utilization is reduced again. Can you quantify "high disk usage"? For me it is very minor (<0.5 MB/s) and I would not consider that a problem.

[h0rn3z0r]

Hi @h0rn3z0r, this is caused by reading the file icons from disk. Once I disable that in code, disk utilization is reduced again. Can you quantify "high disk usage"? For me it is very minor (<0.5 MB/s) and I would not consider that a problem.

Oh I see, the problem for me is not the amount of bytes read, the problem is that my hard drives are in standby mode most of the time and each search attempt causes unnecessary wake up and a minor freeze.
Everything has an /icon_shell_extensions=0 INI setting (see relevant issue). It would be nice to have such toggle in the Toolbar also.

[srwi]

I see, I guess that could be a power user flag just like in Everything. There would have to be a placeholder icon though so this will take a tiny bit of implementation effort.

[yfdyh000]

Hi @h0rn3z0r, this is caused by reading the file icons from disk. Once I disable that in code, disk utilization is reduced again. Can you quantify "high disk usage"? For me it is very minor (<0.5 MB/s) and I would not consider that a problem.

Reading the icon of the executable file can cause delays and triggers from antivirus scans.