A power-user search tool that doesn't require indexing, SearchMyFiles allows for extremely customized searches of your computer for very specific information. Much more detailed and customized versus other scanning programs available here on the site.

Very useful, very effective software light years ahead of Windows own painfully stupid file-finding software. With this and Everything (http://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=1479) you can find anything.

Excellent find for me! I can finally use this to export a directory listing of my unicode-named files. This should be categorised under the Directory Listing category as none of those there supports Unicode!

Finally, a simple and straightforward interface to a Search program. I've been looking for something like this ever since Microsoft turned their search into a horribly mangled train wreck in Vista.

I do have a couple of minor nitpicky complaints. First, it uses two windows. If you cancel the search from the settings window, you still have to close the Search window. Second, it would be nice if it supported drag-and-drop from Windows Explorer to determine the folder to search in. Third, it always saves the settings from your last search. It doesn't give you a choice. I got around that by setting the .cfg file to read-only.

None of these is enough to ruin it for me though.

Not as good as a free program called "WildReplace" but this is ok.

Works great for searching through a thumb drive of ebooks & Docs :)

One other note: can search the internals of files much better than Windows Search. I've used them side-by-side and SearchMyFiles found text that Windows Search couldn't. It makes me wonder over the years how many times I gave up on trying to find a file that was right in front of me.

I use many of Nir Sofer's utilities and have yet to find one that I didn't think was fantastic, SearchMyFiles included. Thanks again, Nir ! !

For Just Art-just read the help file contained in the zip folder. The best Windows search I have found. I use it tio index my CD/DVD/hard drives and flash drives and keep them in a searchable folder -great.

I would use "Everything" exclusively if it supported FAT32/USB drives. I might have to try this. nirsoft offers some very sweet utilities, great stuff for sys admins and advanced users

Be careful when searching for "cmd" or "bat" files. If you open them using the "Open With" option and you select a text editor, next time you double click on a "cmd" or "bat" in the windows explorer the file is opened again with the text editor.

Note The screen shot shown here is way out of date (as is the image on the NirSoft site) with many of the recent improvements are not shown.
Excellent tool my pick of the search utils

Testing this out and works great! A few things that could be better: 1) The search options GUI is a little convoluted 2) Search results would benefit from drag and drop so you can drop the file in question into the program of your choice

I ran a comparison test of this program VS the well known "Agent Ransack".

I searched all (*.txt) text files inside an 800 GB folder, looking for the words "their next album".

Agent Ransack found two files (which is correct, there were only two text files with that string). The results came up after about 20 seconds.

Then I tried the same thing with "SearchMyFiles" ...The (correct) results popped up faster than I could take a few breaths; Amazing !!

Happy day! Drag 'n drop support! :)

@derty2 Since Windows does all kinds of indexing and caching of HD scans it is usual for the second run of any program to be much faster than the first. The proper way to compare the performance of such programs is to do a restart between tests.

Excellent program nontheless.

Another annoying instance of the 64-bit executable (inside the differently named zip file) having the same name as the 32-bit executable. Is the file 64-bit, or 32-bit?

@AdrianK_IT: Again? Don't you read the responses to your questions? www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?id=1950

Wow!

this app is pretty impressive.
my operating system is 64-bit, and ran into many problems with other so-called 'search' software that were unable to search x64 files.

this is the only search software that actually worked for me.
i was able to search in SysWOW64 directory :)

Well ive used pcs since dos 3.3, and ill be buggered if I can get this to work. Set a simple search and it took around 6 minutes to show files that had no connection to the search requirement. Ultra file search lite found the files asked for in the blink of an eye. Sorry but I must be stupid.