UltraSearch Free v3.4
Andrew Lee on 15 Nov 2022 Change history
- 55MB (uncompressed)
- Released on 7 Nov 2022
- Suggested by guinness
UltraSearch Free is a fast and feature-rich search tool, building a searchable listing of drive content in seconds. File name searches narrow as they are typed and support wildcards such as "*.txt". Additional information like file size and last change date are present, along with access to Explorer's own context menu.
The program also includes a slower, non-indexing file content search that will look inside files, including a variety of Office (DOCX, PDF, PST, ODT) and compressed files (ZIP, 7Z, RAR). It is recommended that you provide a small set of files to check e.g. ext:DOCX content:portable to look for the word "portable" in MS Word files.
Other search options include AND / OR operations, regular expressions, a custom exclude filter for path, files, parent folders, etc., and results can be exported to text and CSV. Commercial version available with more features.
| Category: | |
| Runs on: | Win8 / Win10 |
| Writes settings to: | Application folder |
| Dependencies: | Administrator rights (or launch with /NOADMIN argument) |
| Unicode support: | Yes |
| License: | Freeware/Liteware |
| How to extract: | Download the "Portable" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch UltraSearch.exe. |
| Similar/alternative apps: | Everything |
| What's new? | See: https://www.jam-software.com/ultrasearch_free/changes.shtml |
26 comments on UltraSearch Free
TP109
2021-11-18 17:07
Changes for Version 3.1.2
"... support for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 ends with version 3.1.2. Subsequent versions will no longer support these operating systems."
https://www.jam-software.com/ultrasearch_free/changes.shtml
v3.12
webfork
2021-05-28 22:35
I've been using this program daily for the past month and I'm really impressed. I do find that Everything does some fragmented searches better, but I'm slowly warming up to the program. I'll be easily pushed over if they add some kind of content index (for more immediate search results of file internals).
v3.11
webfork
2020-10-01 23:19
@art: thanks, it looks like the program went 64-bit only. Entry updated.
v3.0
art
2020-10-01 06:21
I download v3.0 x32 using direct link provided here (https://downloads.jam-software.de/ultrasearch_free/UltraSearch-x86-Free-Portable.zip) and it writes to file: C:\Users\<USERNAME>\AppData\Roaming\UltraSearch Free\MainForm_RibbonOptions.xml.
If you move this file "MainForm_RibbonOptions.xml" to app's folder it will be used from this location and so UltraSearch free will become full portable!
update: I just found that link https://downloads.jam-software.de/ultrasearch_free/UltraSearch-x86-Free-Portable.zip (for the x32 version) is NOT valid any more!!!
v3.0
freakazoid
2020-07-06 22:24
I was testing some alternatives to HDDB and this was listed as an alternative.
I briefly tested this and it's a memory eater. Uses around 500MB RAM and used a lot of disk I/O on first boot.
Stick to HDDB or Everything.
v2.3.2
The app crashes a lot
v3.2.0