Windows Search Replacement

If you search a lot using windows inbuilt search program you must have noticed it is slow and if indexing is enabled then it becomes a great space hogger. Recently I tested for some of the search programs both sharewares and freewares. Here are some of them which I liked.

# 'Everything' by voidtools : It's the best I have found for the day to day simple file searching. Although it uses indexing but the index file is only about 1mb for over 100GB indexed files. It can be used only for indexing ntfs partitions. It allows only file searching based on names or type. Doesn't allow to search in network.



And one more thing it's freeware!

Visit Everything's homepage to know more.

# Effective File Search(EFS) from sowsoft : It's another nice search tool which could be used as Windows Search Replacement. It doesn't index files. You could search with different criteria like Filesize, Timestamp etc. It can search in network for files. Another thing it offers is to search for text within files using regex. It's very useful for programmer's point of view.




It's shareware product.

Visit EFS homepage to know more.

# Locate32 : Another search software using indexing. Very fast and plenty of search options.



It's a freeware product.
Visit homepage to know more.

Feel free to recommend your favorite search software.

Cheers!