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Google Desktop Search - http://desktop.google.com/
Utility that indexes files on desktop PC and displays results in a Google search page, with some relevance ranking based on modified dates. [Windows] |
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Windows Desktop Search - http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/desktopsearch/default.mspx
Indexes contents of a desktop machine and allows searching via a search box built into the taskbar. Results displayed in a window sorted by relevance. [Windows] |
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Copernic Desktop Search - http://www.copernic.com/en/products/desktop-search/
Indexed full text search of local and network drives. Searches MS Office, Open Office, PDF, archives, multimedia, email and attachments, browser bookmarks and history, and Lotus Notes. Filter by file type, date, and size. Includes desktop taskbar. Shareware. [XP/Vista] |
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Coveo Enterprise Search - http://www.coveo.com
Enterprise level indexed search of most forms of digital content, including speech recognition within A/V formats. Features distributed indexing, collaborative ranking, integrates with existing document security systems. Shareware. |
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PowerGREP - http://www.powergrep.com/
Tool for searching groups of files, with regular expression and replace facility. |
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AGREP, an approximate GREP - http://www.tgries.de/agrep/
Fuzzy text search of files in a single folder and optional subfolders. Supports RegEx, wildcards, pattern sets, user-definable records, and most standard GREP options. Open Source. [OS2/DOS/Win3.x/95/NT] |
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http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/~jjaakkol/sgrep.html - http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/~jjaakkol/sgrep.html
Structured grep is a tool for searching and indexing text, SGML, XML and HTML files and filtering text streams using structural criteria. Win32 binary and binaries for HP-UX, Linux, OSF1 and Solaris. |
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Search and Replace for Windows 95/98/NT 3x - http://www.funduc.com/search_replace.htm
Shareware utility for search and replace in multiple files, directories and zip archives. Supports egrep style regular expressions. Script language for webmasters and programmers. From Funduc Software. |
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http://redtree.com/wilbur - http://redtree.com/wilbur
Indexes drives, files, CDs, and zip archives, accepts wildcards, OLE and command line integration, GPL for Win32 from RedTree Development. |
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Windows Grep - http://www.wingrep.com/
Graphical text search and replace tool for Win32, shareware. |
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Hurricane Software Inc. - http://www.hurricanesoft.com/
WinGREP, real time search/replace, find unlimited files across multiple directories. Extended IDE configuration, history management, enhanced file mask management. Results pane displays results in context. Provides, company information, FAQs and download area. |
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Advanced Find and Replace - http://www.abacre.com/afr/
Performs single or multiple search/replace operations on text and MS Office files in a single folder and optional subfolders. Uses Search-engine style interface, supports RegEx, filters by file size and access date. Shareware. [Win95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista] |
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Simple Search/Replace Software - http://www.rjlsoftware.com/software/utility/search/
A free replacement for the Windows "containing text" option found in their search window. Search plain-ASCII text files, such as source code, HTML, RTF and batch files. However it can also search binary files such as word processor documents, databases, spreadsheets and executables. |
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Ask Desktop Search - http://sp.ask.com/en/docs/desktop/overview.shtml
Indexed full text search of text, MS Office, PDF, ZIP, and multimedia files, email, and browser bookmarks and history. Results displayed in application or browser. Includes browser toolbar, system tray icon. Freeware. [Win2000/XP] |
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Agent Ransack - http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/
Non-indexed full text search of files in a single folder and optional subfolders. Advanced and Wizard interfaces. Supports RegEx, filters by file size and access date. Freeware. [Win95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista] |
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FindInFilesX ActiveX Component - http://www.softinterface.com/
Instantly add sophisticated text searching (Grep) to your programs. Search MSWord and/or text documents. Great demo source code provided, by SoftInterface, Inc. |
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File Substring Replacement Utility - http://www.gammadyne.com/freplace.htm
Search and/or replace multiple substrings in multiple files. Windows shareware from Gammadyne Software. |
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LanSpider - http://www.reymax.com/lan_spider.html
Full-featured shareware network file-searching utility. Advanced search options helps to pinpoint the exact patterns of the wanted file, by Reymax Software. |
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Effective File Search - http://www.sowsoft.com/search.htm
Search any files on your computer or local network with this effective shareware tool for Windows XP/2000/9X/NT. Windows Explorer functionality and many useful features for small business. |
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diskMETA - http://diskmeta.com
Full text, indexing document search. Supports TXT/DOC/RTF/PDF/HTM/XML/XLS/CHM/ZIP/RAR. Ranks results by relevance. Features query builder, keyword highlighting. [Win98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP] |
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Deductus - http://www.aolej.com/
Indexed full text search of local and network drives. Searches MS Office, PDF, archives, multimedia files. Supports boolean operators. Shareware. [Win95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP] |
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Filehunter Software - http://www.filehunter.com/
Developer of shareware programs to search and locate files. Featured products are FindReplaceExcel, Zipsearch, and Filehunter. Product specifications, screenshots, and downloads. |
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File Locator - http://www.amicutilities.com/file-locator/
Find any file on the computer including MP3s files, movies, documents, and applications. Free trial version available for download. [Windows] |
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Examine32 - http://www.examine32.com/
Text search utility for Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP, supports zip archives and regular expressions. Shareware from Aquila Software. |
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Ava Find - http://www.think-less-do-more.com/avafind
Finds files by name. Creates an index of all files for fast lookup, optionally monitors new files to keep up to date. Provides integrated browsing of specific file types. Filter by drive or folder. Shareware. |
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KRAS Labs - http://www.kraslabs.com/
StrongSearch, Windows utility for searching files on local area network (LAN). Filter by file size, and time. Export search results in HTML, XML file format. |
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AstroGrep v2.0 - http://sourceforge.net/projects/astrogrep/
Windows grep. Searches files in a single folder and optional subfolders. Recalls paths and targets. Supports RegEx, printing, displays surrounding lines in results. Freeware. [Win95/98/NT/2000/XP] |
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ACE IntraSearch - http://www.ecrew.org/products/intrasearch/
File and non-indexed full text search of local and network drives. Specify single start location, optionally process subdirectories. Filter by date, size, and attributes. Shareware. |
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Ace File Search - http://www.extbytes.com/
File and non-indexed full text search. Searches a list of locations, filters by dates, sizes, and attributes. Text search supports boolean operators. Shareware. [Win95/98/NT/XP] |
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NavSearch Offline Search Engine - http://www.faico.net/navsrh/index.html
Scans local or network drives or CD-ROM, using Netscape / MSIE, performs full text search on files, supports boolean operators. No winsock.dll required. English and French interface. Windows 16 or 32 bit shareware. |
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http://www.zipscan.co.uk/ - http://www.zipscan.co.uk/
Shareware archive search utility for Windows, that looks inside archive files. The program can search Zip, CAB, RAR and JAR files, including self-extracting archives. |
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DivlocSoft - http://www.divlocsoft.com/
Actual Search and Replace is an easy to use utility to search and replace across multiple files. For the found files, it shows lines containing highlighted searched words and phrases. |
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FindFiles - http://homepage.ntlworld.com/snakegamer/main.html
Replacement for the Windows XP search facility. Feature including multiple files renames, replace strings, and find multiple strings, preview pictures, text documents and movies with built in movie player (using windows media player). |
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Nihuo Software - http://www.nihuo.com/
Cool Find is a powerful file search tool for Windows. Support Drag, Drop and Copy of files, even including those in ZIP file. With string search in files, including Unicode files and Microsoft Office files. Requirements: Internet Explorer 5.0 or better and Win 9x/NT/2000/Me. |
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Find Duplicates - http://geocities.com/hirak_99/goodies/finddups.html
A free tool to search for duplicate files in Windows. |
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SearchWin - http://www.searchwin.net/
Searches for file names or file context in Windows using multiple search terms that can be related with And/Or/Not. Find files without using ancient DOS filename or wildcard parameters. Print search results or save search results to text or comma delimited file. |
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Finders Keepers - http://yadudigital.com/products/finderskeepers.htm
Search files by exact match, grep, approximate, and sound-alike, built in or customizable viewers, replace text with backups, index files for quick retrieval. Windows 95/98/NT trial download. |
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Arstechnica.com - http://arstechnica.com/reviews/apps/desktop-search.ars
Review of five Windows desktop search programs, covering what is indexed, mechanism used for search, how search results are displayed (interface quality) and how they are ranked for relevancy (if at all). |
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Active Logic Search - http://www.prognext.com
Searches local drives based on file names or content. Supports all boolean operations. Sorts, groups, and auto-copies results. Searches .DOC, .PDF, .ZIP files. Shareware. [Win2000/XP] |
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FindFile ActiveX Component - http://www.tutorial-web.com/asp/components/findfile.asp
An ActiveX component that facilitates searching a directory or a set of subdirectories for the oldest or most recent file based on its creation or modification date. |
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Enterprise Search - http://www.innerprise.net/es-bi.asp
Search engine software for indexing and searching local file systems, web sites, and Intranets. |
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Files Search Assistant - http://www.aks-labs.com/
Search quick and efficient within text documents by using different file formats. Custom search options, generate reports, print or save to file. |
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Yahoo! Desktop Search - http://desktop.yahoo.com/
Indexes files on desktop machine and allows searching via software interface. Results not ranked by relevance, but it uses reductive queries that means the list of results narrows as you add additional keywords. [Windows] |
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Eluent Software - http://www.eluent.com/
A collection of utilities including Eluent Replace, an interactive, multi-file search and replace program that uses Perl regular expressions and scripting, and Eluent Find, a file contents searcher and viewer. [Win 95/98/ME/NT4/2000] |
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AGREP for VMS - http://nucwww.chem.sunysb.edu/info/agrep.htmlx
A port of the University of Arizona AGREP to VMS by J. Lauret. Supports approximate match, RegEx, wildcards, pattern sets, user-definable record delimiter. Freeware. [VMS] |