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Index Your Files v5.0.2.6

lwc on 7 Jul 2023
  • 1MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 16 Sep 2018
  • Suggested by Rafael Castro

Index Your Files allows you to search through all your files or folders on local or networked drives. Searching can be done by name, date, size, location etc., and boolean operators are available to to perform multiple keyword searches. You can invoke Windows Explorer context menus on found files to perform operations such as drag/drop, copy, rename, delete etc. It also includes internal viewers for text, HTML and image files.

As the name implies, the program must index the area before searching, but afterward searches almost instantly.

Note: v5.0.2.6 is effectively the last freeware version of IYF. The current version is named "IYF Pro", and is an extreme nagware (as described by webfork here) that is effectively just a commercial demo, so we have decided not to update this entry, but link to the Internet Archive for download of the last freeware version.

Category:
Runs on:WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Delete unnecessary language files. Launch iyf.exe.
What's new?
  • Added Lithuanian, Kurdish and Thai languages.
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mmaul@flash.net on 2013-11-16 15:21

I liked the program and am trying to use it for indexing a network drive. I'm indexing through a DSL connection that occasionally drops. The index takes about 10 hours for 1.5 million files and the drive size looks on the order of 2.5 TB.

When it drops the connection during this time - is there any way to recover and go on from where the drop occurred?

For a scheduled index - is this incremental or does it start over from no indexing?

Wolfghost on 2013-11-19 08:25

Link is back! Fixed

Rafael Castro on 2021-06-18 14:57

IYF for Linux, Windows or Mac.
Index Your Files is a portable, cross-platform utility that can index, import, export, save, and search folder/file information.

Index Your Files works by creating individual databases for an individual/computer. You can also create databases for the whole network allowing you to know the location of the information you need efficiently. It has access to folders and files on every network computer as long as it is powered on. But even if the machine is off, you can still access file names.

It can index Windows, Linux or Mac Disk, CD, Networks, etc., regardless of whether it is NTFS, FAT32, FAT16, EXT4, etc., as it indexes everything recognizable to the OS.

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Multi Path Files Finder v1.00

Andrew Lee on 12 Feb 2013
  • 1MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on
  • Suggested by guinness

MPFF is a fast file searching utility that can run a file search in up to three different paths including a UNC path, and also exclude a phrase from the search, for each path you can decide to search also sub folders.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: None
Stealth: ? Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch MPFF.exe.
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David Dollevoet on 2010-05-25 21:38

Multi Path Files Finder 1.00 is my preferred file search utility. Reasonably small, flexible, and efficient. Does not use a (undesireable, for me) index database; but is fast nonetheless -- Searched C:\ and all subdirectories for "*.exe" files -- found 1,774 files in 15 seconds.

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SearchFilterView v1.00

Checker on 21 Mar 2014
  • 53KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on
  • Suggested by guinness

SearchFilterView allows you to easily view the search filters installed on your system and the file extensions that are associated with them, as well as it allows you to easily add or remove file extensions for these filters.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch SearchFilterView.exe.

Snowbird v7.0

webfork on 11 Jan 2016
  • 531KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on
  • Suggested by Andrew Lee

Snowbird is a small and fast non-indexing search program. It displays results in real-time as the search progresses. A preview window is available that lets you peek at text files, pictures and webpages from the search results. Besides searching in file names, it can also be configured to look for text inside certain files, such as Word documents or Excel spreadsheets.

Note: Links broken ... linking to Softpedia.

Category:
Runs on:Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch Snowbird.exe.
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Fhutt on 2012-12-30 04:53

A great speedy file manager. There are a couple of things that need to be added to make it really usable:
1) Make it open in the folder that was accessed when it was closed last,
2) Provide drag and drop.
Otherwise, it's the only file manager I have found that works when launched as Local System user.
I notice that the current version is 3 years old (2009).

Emka on 2014-12-06 07:23

Links broken

Checker on 2014-12-06 10:56

@ Emka: Linked to Softpedia.

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HABExam v3.2

billon on 12 Sep 2019
  • 436KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 26 Sep 2005
  • Suggested by AlephX

HABExam is a search tool that aims to combine the best of Windows own search tool and GREP, trying to make a more flexible and user-friendly search. The program includes normal text/unicode/hex search, different positions in word. The program can search by file mask, selected files, Hidden/System files, and can exclude/include by type or subfolder.

NOTE: Website is gone, linking to Archive.org.

Category:
Runs on:Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application Folder
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract Readme.txt and content of included _files.zip to a folder of your choice. Launch habexam.exe.
Latest comments
AlephX on 2007-03-28 14:10

I tried to delete it to see if it was locked, but I had no problem... I don´t know what is the reason of that strange behaviour. The only thing I can think is that you "have installed the program"... I did not install it, but I used it as portable

Anonymous on 2007-03-29 05:47

I unzipped the _files.zip, as suggested. I also redownloaded it and removed it normally... I don't know why it's in use at my other test.

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File Seeker v3.5.1

smaragdus on 27 Jun 2016
  • 3MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on
  • Suggested by TPFC Fan

File Seeker is a very fast searching utility. It includes the ability to search within many different kinds of files, including compressed archives. It also features different filters to narrow down possible results.

Category:
Runs on:Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP
Writes settings to: Application Folder
License: Freeware
How to extract:
  1. Download the installer and extract to a folder of your choice
  2. The application is in the {app} folder
  3. Launch Fseeker.exe
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malm32 on 2009-03-12 05:16

The download link for File Seeker is:
http://www.qytec.net/downloads/fileseeker.exe

anonymous on 2010-06-06 10:50

the file is not there, 0 bytes files

donald on 2010-06-21 13:21

The original website seems to have been sold.

I have found the 3.5.1 version and have linked to the webpage in the entry also here http://www.softpedia.com/get/PORTABLE-SOFTWARE/System/File-management/Windows-Portable-Applications-Portable-File-Seeker.shtml

I have also found a version 3.5.2 it can be found here http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/File-Management/Qytec-File-Seeker.shtml

I have not tested or tried this yet.

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