Free Search Files Software

GET Control by Martin Software

All-in-one: virtual desktops, virtual clipboards, hotkeys manager, startup manager, split and merge files, pickup color, minimize application to traybar, search files and directories, check mails with preview, kill process, notes on desktop, virtual drives, encrypt and decrypt files.

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SSEFind by Seiz System Engineering

Searching files on Windows Mobile can be troublesome. The builtin search function does not show all files. That is where SSEFind! can be a big help. The program not only searches, but also finds files on your mobile device. Narrow your search using file name filter, date, start folder. Files found can be opened / launched straight from this program.

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Zip Search by Full Circuit Ltd

Find will often fail when the search for text is inside a zip. This program will do a text search inside zipped files. You can specify the files to search (e.g. *.txt + *.doc) as well as the the search string. Subdirectories can be searched too. Double-clicking a file on the final list will open the zip in you associated zip program.

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Tiny Toolbar by SoftCab Inc

Small but powerful web browser tool that appears near the address bar. Searches for information on popular search engines as well as local files and folders. Blocks unwanted ads on web pages. Fills complex forms. Ping, tracert and pathping features. Blocks all images, popups and JavaScript errors on a webpage. Shows HTML source of a page and all its frames. Developers can now fill software submition forms automatically.

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XSearch by EaseXP.com

XSearch is a free search tool that with more features that Windows Search didn't provided. It can search files on your computer in high speed. When searching for special words in files, you can specify the words option such as "Any of the words", "All of the words", "Exact phrase", "Without the words" etc, you also can search files in hexadecimal. XSearch also automatically supports to search words in files in unicode or UTF8 format.

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NoteTab Light by Fookes Software

The ultimate free Notepad replacement and a handy HTML editor. Move quickly around stacks of large files with a simple tabbed interface and format your text to your heart's content. Perform system-wide search and replacements. Strip HTML tags. Build libraries of text macros to speed up your work. Avoid tedious cut-and-paste operations -- save text clips automatically in Paste Board files. Make the most of NoteTab's options to suit your workstyle.

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Filehand Search by Filehand, LLC

Free! Filehand Search instantly finds files on your computer. Search Outlook, PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, WordPerfect, HTML/MHT, MP3, and Zip archives. Results displayed in order of relevance and can be shown in the style of a web search page or a list view. Results include scrollable and searchable extracts with the search terms highlighted. Use tabs to create separate search projects with their own display preferences and search histories.

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Harddisk Search and Stats by Freebyte

Freeware file and disk search engine. Searches multiple text-based files an folders recursively. You can use as many search-phrases as you want within one search, also: filter using file extensions, file-date, file-size; search with wildcards, (reverse)-sort on file-date and -size. The program has an internal file viewer; you can also specify an external file viewer. The search-filter can import all file extensions from a folder (recursively).

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Instant File Name Search by SOW

Instant File Name Search (IFNS) is a fast, free and easy to use search tool. Instantly search files by name or wildcards on your computer or local network. IFNS offers support of Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT), database management (you can create several databases), hot keys and a convenient, Explorer like interface.

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BareGrep by Bare Metal Software Pty Ltd

A free file finding and text searching tool: * Regular expression text search * High performance search algorithm * Wildcard and regular expression file search * Recursive directory search * Save, name and manage text search patterns * Interactive, incremental search * Extract data with capturing groups * Tabular presentation of search results * Export/copy search results in many formats * Search files of any size (> 2GB)

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