Originally Posted By: kevs
I just got El Capitan.

Spotlight is glorified feature of OSX i have not used too much.

I'm used to just doing a old fashioned search in finder windows. I would like to appreciate spotlight more, but tonight, I do a search, and put an i, in the spotlight field, it finishes the word for me but not the word I want. It's starts indexing this word I don't want to search, and two hours later is still indexing, and I can't get the spotlight window to vanish, even with escape key.


You might want to try and use the excellent freeware product EasyFind. It has been around a while, lets you put in exactly what you want to search for, and is fast. I use it, and am quite happy with the product. You can get it from here:

http://www.devontechnologies.com/download/products.html

If you just click on the Download "button" in the row where it says EasyFind, it will download the latest version (4.9.3) directly. No need to go to the App Store.