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i do not "organize my files", i do not "put things in separate folders", i PUT EVERYTHING IN DOWNLOADS! and if i can't find it, i LOST IT!

then you try searching for it and get stuck with this for like 3 hours

windows search is extremely unoptimized. there are tools (such as Everything by voidtools) which speeds this up to *real-time search results as you type*. Or if you're looking to clean out some space on your drive but don't know where to find those unwanted large files, windirstat is the tool.