Recent changes is a list of files and folders that have been changed since Everything was started.
Recent changes are enabled by default.
To turn recent changes on or off:
In "Everything", from the Tools menu, click Options.
Click the Indexes tab.
Check or uncheck Index recent changes:
Click OK.
Use rc: or recentchange: with a date to search for recent changes:
rc:<date>
For example, to find recent changes today, search for:
rc:today
For example, to find recent changes yesterday, search for:
rc:yesterday
For example, to find recent changes in the last 2 hours, search for:
rc:last2hours
For example, to find recent changes in the last 10 minutes, search for:
rc:last10mins
For the full rc: search syntax, please see searching.
By default, Everything will only keep a list of changes since Everything was started, including the USN change Journal in the recent changes list will allow you to quickly search for changes that can go back many days.
To include the USN Journals in the recent changes list:
In "Everything", from the Tools menu, click Options.
Click the NTFS tab.
For each local NTFS volume:
Check Load recent changes from USN journal.
Click OK.
Sorting by recent changes is instant and persistant.
Right click an empty spot in the result list, from the Sort by menu, click Date Recently changed.
Sort by recent changes to monitor changes to the Everything index in real-time.
rc: and recentchange: search functions.