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  • Listary

  • Listary is an excellent enhancement utility for list controls used everywhere: Windows Explorer, Task Manager, Registry Editor, and innumerable third-party applications.It searches folders, files or anything else as-you-type. Autocomplete, masks, hotkeys, regular expressions (pro version only) are good time-saving features.

    tags: Portable browsing enhancing explorer-integration export-to-excel
  • Agent Ransack

  • Agent Ransack is a tool for finding files and information on your hard drive fast and efficiently. When searching the contents of files Agent Ransack also displays the text found. Users can then quickly browse the results without having to separately open each file!

    tags: context-menu-extension email-search file-management file-search outlook-search
  • Locate32

  • Locate32 is software which can be used to find files from your harddrives and other locations. It works like updatedb and locate commands in Unix based systems. In other words, it uses databases to store information about directory structures and uses these databases in searches. The use of these databases provides very fast searching speed. The software includes a dialog based application as well as console programs which can be used to both update and access databases.

    tags: file-management file-search index
  • RecentX

  • RecentX gives you fastest access to your files, folders, programs, websites and also clipboard history in Windows. What's special is that it automatically remembers your recent and favorite items so that you can access them faster than searching all the files, folders etc. You can assign tags to all of them. You will be surprised to see how much hassle it saves and makes computing really enjoyable. We have stuffed this app with innovations that will boost your productivity.

    tags: Portable app-launcher app-search application-launcher bookmark-manager
  • EasyFind

  • Think Mac OS Xs Spotlight could use some help? Download EasyFind, an alternative to (or supplement of) Spotlight and find files, folders, or contents in any file without indexing. EasyFind is especially useful for those tired of slow or impossible indexing, outdated or corrupted indices, or those just looking for features missing in the Finder or Spotlight.

    tags: file-search finder find-files
  • FSearch

  • FSearch is a fast file search utility for GNU/Linux operating systems, inspired by Everything Search Engine. It's written in C and based on GTK+3.

    tags: file-search find-files finder indexed-search regexp
  • Find Any File

  • Find Any File searches your local disks for files by name, creation or modification date, size, or type and creator code (not by content, though). As there are other tools with a similar search operation, here are the special features unique to Find Any File:Has a new hierarchical view of the found items, making it much easier to browse 100s of items.Can run as root user, finding really any file on your disk, even those that are hidden from normal users.Can save queries and run them again later.Is quite fast: About 10 times faster than EasyFind 4.0.1 when searching for a file name (Mac Pro with 2 million files, searching "httpd.conf": EasyFile: 150s, this app: 15s) »

    tags: file-search find-files finder
  • Gnome Do

  • GNOME Do allows you to quickly search for many items present on your desktop or the web, and perform useful actions on those items.

    tags: Discontinued application-launcher keystroke-launcher plugins
  • Catfish

  • Catfish is a versatile file searching tool.

    tags: autocompletion file-search filtering xfce
  • regain

  • Search the contents of your files not just the file names.regain is a search engine similar to web search engines like Google, with the difference that you don't search the web, but your own files and documents. Using regain you can search through large portions of data (several gigabytes!) in split seconds!

    tags: desktop-search indexed-search search-in-files search-text-in-files search-tool
  • Lookeen Desktop Search

  • Lookeen Desktop Search is an indexed-based file and email search tool for business and private users. With Lookeen you will not only find the information you need on your desktop – shared folders and network paths can also be indexed and searched.

    tags: desktop-search document-automation email-search file-search indexed-search
  • FileSearchy

  • File search utility that provides instant search by file name, and powerful search by file contents, size and date. Supports search inside PDF, Microsoft Office and other documents. Highlights found text in file names and contents. Clean and intuitive multi-tabbed user interface.

    tags: Discontinued file-search local-search search-engine search-tool
  • Searchmonkey

  • A fast real-time search engine for displaying regular expression matches (both file name and content) across multiple directories.

    tags: desktop-search index desktop-index
  • UltraSearch

  • UltraSearch searches files and folders on local NTFS drives and provides the results within just a few seconds.UltraSearch does NOT maintain an index which is stored on your harddisk, it achieves its speed by working directly on the Master File Table (MFT) of the NTFS partitions.

    tags: file-search on-the-fly-search pattern realtime-search
  • SearchMyFiles

  • SearchMyFiles is a non-indexing portable alternative to the standard "Search For Files And Folders" module of Windows. It allows you to easily search files in your system by wildcard, by last modified/created/last accessed time, by file attributes, by file content (text or binary search), and by the file size. SearchMyFiles allows you to make a very accurate search that cannot be done with Windows search. For Example: You can search all files created in the last 10 minutes with size between 500 and 700 bytes. After you made a search, you can select one or more files, and save the list into text/html/csv/xml file, or copy the list to the clipboard.SearchMyFiles is portable, and you can use it from a USB flash drive without leaving traces in the Registry of the scanned computer. The utility is a part of NirLauncher Pack. »

    tags: Portable fast-local-search file-search lan-search network-search