Web Directory

» AGREP, an approximate GREP
   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]
   http://www.tgries.de/agrep/

» Ace File Search
   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]
   http://www.extbytes.com/

» Active Logic Search
   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]
   http://www.prognext.com

» Advanced Find and Replace
   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
   http://www.abacre.com/afr/

» Agent Ransack
   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]
   http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/

» Arstechnica.com
   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).
   http://arstechnica.com/reviews/apps/desktop-search.ars

» AstroGrep v2.0
   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]
   http://sourceforge.net/projects/astrogrep/

» Ava Find
   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.
   http://www.think-less-do-more.com/avafind

» Copernic 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. Sharewa
   http://www.copernic.com/en/products/desktop-search/

» Coveo Enterprise Search
   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.
   http://www.coveo.com

» Deductus
   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]
   http://www.aolej.com/

» DivlocSoft
   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.
   http://www.divlocsoft.com/

» Effective File Search
   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.
   http://www.sowsoft.com/search.htm

» Enterprise Search
   Search engine software for indexing and searching local file systems, web sites, and Intranets.
   http://www.innerprise.net/es-bi.asp

» Examine32
   Text search utility for Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP, supports zip archives and regular expressions. Shareware from Aquila Software.
   http://www.examine32.com/

» File Locator
   Find any file on the computer including MP3s files, movies, documents, and applications. Free trial version available for download. [Windows]
   http://www.amicutilities.com/file-locator/

» File Substring Replacement Utility
   Search and/or replace multiple substrings in multiple files. Windows shareware from Gammadyne Software.
   http://www.gammadyne.com/freplace.htm

» Filehunter Software
   Developer of shareware programs to search and locate files. Featured products are FindReplaceExcel, Zipsearch, and Filehunter. Product specifications, screenshots, and downloads.
   http://www.filehunter.com/

» Files Search Assistant
   Search quick and efficient within text documents by using different file formats. Custom search options, generate reports, print or save to file.
   http://www.aks-labs.com/

» FindFile ActiveX Component
   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.
   http://www.tutorial-web.com/asp/components/findfile.asp

» FindFiles
   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).
   http://homepage.ntlworld.com/snakegamer/main.html

» FindInFilesX ActiveX Component
   Instantly add sophisticated text searching (Grep) to your programs. Search MSWord and/or text documents. Great demo source code provided, by SoftInterface, Inc.
   http://www.softinterface.com/

» Finders Keepers
   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.
   http://yadudigital.com/products/finderskeepers.htm

» Google Desktop Search
   Utility that indexes files on desktop PC and displays results in a Google search page, with some relevance ranking based on modified dates. [Windows]
   http://desktop.google.com/

» Hurricane Software Inc.
   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
   http://www.hurricanesoft.com/

» KRAS Labs
   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.
   http://www.kraslabs.com/

» LanSpider
   Full-featured shareware network file-searching utility. Advanced search options helps to pinpoint the exact patterns of the wanted file, by Reymax Software.
   http://www.reymax.com/lan_spider.html

» NavSearch Offline Search Engine
   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.
   http://www.faico.net/navsrh/index.html

» Nihuo Software
   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 an
   http://www.nihuo.com/

» PowerGREP
   Tool for searching groups of files, with regular expression and replace facility.
   http://www.powergrep.com/

» Search and Replace for Windows 95/98/NT 3x
   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.
   http://www.funduc.com/search_replace.htm

» SearchWin
   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 delimite
   http://www.searchwin.net/

» Sgrep
   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.
   http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/~jjaakkol/sgrep.html

» Simple Search/Replace Software
   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, s
   http://www.rjlsoftware.com/software/utility/search/

» Wilbur
   Indexes drives, files, CDs, and zip archives, accepts wildcards, OLE and command line integration, GPL for Win32 from RedTree Development.
   http://redtree.com/wilbur

» Windows Desktop Search
   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]
   http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/desktopsearch/default.mspx

» Windows Grep
   Graphical text search and replace tool for Win32, shareware.
   http://www.wingrep.com/

» Yahoo! Desktop Search
   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]
   http://desktop.yahoo.com/

» ZipScan
   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.
   http://www.zipscan.co.uk/

» diskMETA
   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]
   http://diskmeta.com