Software Listing: Windows Search
- Microsoft Windows Search 3.x SDK
- License: Shareware

The Microsoft Windows Search 3.x SDK includes sample applications demonstrating the key concepts and functionality areas described in the Windows Search Developer's Guide on MSDN. A managed code assembly is also included for .NET development support.
This SDK can be used with Windows Desktop Search 3.x or Windows Search 4.
Get the Microsoft Windows Search 3.x SDK and give it a try to fully assess its capabilities!
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- Publisher: Microsoft
- Date:
- Platform: WinOther, WinServer, WinVista
- Windows Search 4.0 for windows
- License: Shareware

Windows Search 4.0 is an updated component of Windows that enables instant search on your computer.
WS4 lets you perform an instant search of your computer. WS4 helps you find and preview documents, e-mail messages, music files, photos, and other items on the computer. Please refer to the Knowledge base article KB940157 for a full description of the technology.
Note The WS4 installation process automatically upgrades Windows Desktop Search (WDS) 2.6 or later versions of Windows Search technologies. Windows XP users who have an earlier version than WDS 2.6 installed, use the Add or Remove Programs tool in the Control Panel to remove the earlier version before installing WS4.
- Publisher: Microsoft Corporation.
- Date:
- Size: 5386 KB
- Platform: WinOther
- Filter Quark Documents in Windows
- License: Shareware
- Price: 4.99

Introduction:- Microsoft has been improvising on its Search functionality with each version. The latest incarnation Windows Search 4.0 is extremely powerful and extensible. Windows Search provides an easy and comprehensive solution for finding and organizing the content. Although, default implementation of Windows Search supports searching operation for a number of document types but not all. To support document types not supported by Windows search you require a third party Plug-in. SearchQXP extends the default set of file types supported by Windows Search to include QuarkXpress Documents. SearchQXP would enable you to search contents of QuarkXPress documents such as text, font names, style sheets, and layouts.
- Publisher: MetaDesign Solutions
- Date: 02-09-2012
- Size: 2550 KB
- Platform: WinOther
- Quark File Search & Indexing
- License: Shareware

Quark File Search & Indexing is a plugin that enhances the function of the Windows Search function in order to instantly find QuarkXpress documents.
You can use this utility when you manage a big number or QuarkXpress documents and need to locate them quickly.
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- Publisher: MetaDesign Solutions
- Date:
- Platform: WinOther
- Windows Grep
- License: Shareware

Windows Grep is an advanced searh tool that improves the default Windows search function with reporting support. Although Windows and many other programs have file searching capabilities built-in, none can match the power and versatility of Windows Grep.
This application combines ]the power and flexibility of traditional command line grep utilities available on DOS, UNIX and other platforms with the ease of use of Microsoft Windows.
In addition to searching, Windows Grep also performs global replacing in your files, with complete safety.
Windows Grep is designed for searching plain-ASCII text files, such as program source, HTML, RTF and batch files, but it can also search binary files such as word processor documents, databases, spreadsheets and executables.
- Publisher: Huw Millington
- Date:
- Platform: WinOther
- Windows Search Addon for Quark
- License: Shareware
- Price: 4.99

Introduction:-
Microsoft has been improvising on its Search functionality with each version. The latest incarnation Windows Search 4.0 is extremely powerful and extensible. Windows Search provides an easy and comprehensive solution for finding and organizing the content. Although, default implementation of Windows Search supports searching operation for a number of document types but not all. To support document types not supported by Windows search you require a third party Plug-in.
SearchQXP extends the default set of file types supported by Windows Search to include QuarkXpress Documents.
- Publisher: MetaDesign Solutions
- Date:
- Size: 2549 KB
- Platform: Win7 x32, Win7 x64, WinVista, WinVista x64
- Lookeen Free Desktop Search
- License: Freeware
- Price: 0.00

Lookeen Free - The free desktop search for Windows. Search your Windows main drive quickly and easily with the free version of the award-winning desktop search tool Lookeen. Lookeen is the alternative to Windows Search. Lookeen Free searches through all of your data and presents a clearly arranged set of results. Search words are highlighted in different colors, and the full fidelity preview makes it easy to find the required content. Intelligent features such as search-as-you-type, wildcard search and search filters save you time and frustration in the search for data you cant seem to find. After the simple installation is complete, Lookeen quickly indexes your data with little impact on system resources.
- Publisher: Axonic Informationssysteme GmbH
- Date: 16-04-2015
- Size: 25762 KB
- Platform: WinXP, Win7 x32, Win7 x64, Windows 8, WinVista, WinVista x64
- XSearch
- License: Freeware
- Price: 0.00

XSearch is a free search tool that with more features that Windows Search didn't provided. It can search files on your computer in high speed. When searching for special words in files, you can specify the words option such as "Any of the words", "All of the words", "Exact phrase", "Without the words" etc, you also can search files in hexadecimal. XSearch also automatically supports to search words in files in unicode or UTF8 format. XSearch supports to search for files in specified size, date time, not like Windows search, you also can specify the exact size (in bytes, KB, MB or GB), the exact date and/or time for searching.
- Publisher: EaseXP.com
- Date: 20-07-2006
- Size: 190 KB
- Platform: Win2000, Windows Server, WinOther
- Lookeen Free
- License: Freeware
- Price: 0.00

Lookeen Free Desktop Search is an award winning Windows search tool that enables you to find data saved anywhere on your local hard drives. Lookeen is designed to find results, regardless of the way they’re organized – never mind if you’ve forgotten the name of a document, or where you’ve saved a file. Never waste another moment looking for that one elusive document. Lookeen Free quickly finds what you need, giving you the freedom to get on with your day. Search through an unlimited number of files from the easy to use interface. Narrow down your search with simple filter options. View your files as they would appear in their native format.
- Publisher: Axonic Informationssysteme GmbH
- Date: 25-05-2015
- Size: 25762 KB
- Platform: Win7 x32, Win7 x64, WinVista, WinVista x64, WinXP, Windows 8
- Copernic Desktop Search
- License: Demo
- Price: 49.95

Why invest in a Windows Desktop Search tool? According to International Data Corporation, their survey reveals that information worker, you, spend most of their time performing document-related activity. Here are some interesting facts on how workers spend their time: 5 hours/week searching for documents. 2.3 hours/week searching for, but not finding documents. That\'s at least 2.3 hours of hours wasted per week for having not the appropriate tools. According to their studies, time wasted in document creation and management activities costs the organization $ 9,071 per information worker per week.
- Publisher: Copernic
- Date: 31-01-2016
- Size: 101904 KB
- Platform: Win2000, WinXP, Win7 x32, Win7 x64, Windows 8, Windows 10, WinServer, WinOther, WinVista, WinVista x64
- Accelerated File Search
- License: Shareware
- Price: 28.15

Accelerated File Search is a PC program designed to search files on the hard drives very quickly. You will never waste your time again waiting for the Windows Search to complete the search operation. With Accelerated File Search you will be able to find files just in one second. Accelerated File Search creates copy of the filesystem table in RAM, therefore the search is lightning fast and what is also very important, search process does not require HDD activity (which is a source of annoying noise). At the first startup of the program, the index of filesystem entries is created. This process may require few minutes to complete.
- Publisher: Nova Epoc Systems
- Date: 17-03-2008
- Size: 585 KB
- Platform: Windows Server, Windows Vista, WinOther
- Ndi Search
- License: Freeware
- Price: 0.00

As Windows search becomes less about files and more about words and ideas, Ndi Search sets off to restore the traditional "filter" based search for files.
Ndi Search is a software application that allows the user to build advanced queries by UI alone. Search filters can also be applied.
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- Publisher: Ndi
- Date:
- Platform: WinOther
- Datacatch Graphic Librarian
- License: Demo
- Price: 39

Never again waste time and money searching for lost image, graphic or design archives. This is a must have image storage solution for anyone with image files, photos, designs or critical business data stored on CD, DVD, flash memory & removable drives. Simple to use, Datacatch seamlessly extends Windows search to your offline image content. Instantly find backup or archive image files or photos, browse and view thumbnails of offline files. Datacatch Librarian is the answer for everyone who needs an easy-to-use search management system to bring order to their media and the files they contain.
- Publisher: Datacatch Inc.
- Date: 21-04-2007
- Size: 28165 KB
- Platform: WinOther
- Java Log Search (JLS)
- License: Freeware
- Price: 0.00

The Fastest Desktop search ever! replacement for:( foobar2000 search, google desktop, windows search) Java Log Search Indexes a directory in linear time and then allows you to search it in logarithmic time..
- Publisher: jls.sourceforge.net
- Date: 04-10-2012
- Size: 39 KB
- Platform: Linux, Mac OS X, WinOther
- Everything Portable
- License: Freeware
- Price: 0.00

"Everything" is an administrative tool that locates files and folders by filename instantly for Windows.
Unlike Windows search "Everything" initially displays every file and folder on your computer (hence the name "Everything").
You type in a search filter to limit what files and folders are displayed.
# Small installation file
# Clean and simple user interface
# Quick file indexing
# Quick searching
# Minimal resource usage
# Share files with others easily
# Real-time updating.
- Publisher: voidtools
- Date:
- Size: 266 KB
- Platform: Win2000, Windows 7, WinOther, WinServer, WinVista
- SearchFilterView
- License: Freeware
- Price: 0.00

When you search the content of files with Windows search, it uses the right search IFilter plugin according to the file extension.
This utility 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..
- Publisher: NirSoft
- Date:
- Size: 40 KB
- Platform: Win2000, Windows 7, WinOther, WinServer, WinVista
- SearchFile
- License: Freeware
- Price: 0.00

A COM+ implementation to search in a directory inside text files.Its very fast in compare with normal windows search. In my tests its searched at last 100Mb of text files in 5 minutes in the same enviroment..
- Publisher: searchfile.sourceforge.net
- Date: 19-06-2012
- Size: 66 KB
- Platform: WinOther
- Search GT
- License: Shareware
- Price: 19.95

You know it's somewhere on your PC, but you can't seem to find it. That elusive word processing doc, photograph, MP3 or other important file is hiding somewhere within the gigabytes of electronic file cabinets on your PC hard drive and you need it now. It used to be that your only real option was to run the Windows search utility and then go walk the dog while the software crawled its way through every byte of file storage. But that was before Search GT, the file-find add-on for Windows that speeds up the file searching process by up to 100 times and is usually capable of finding your target file in 2 seconds or less! Unlike some other resource-intensive search solutions that constantly hog system resources and create index files taking up disk storage space, Search GT doesn't work in the background and doesn't rely upon index...
- Publisher: Isatech Software
- Date: 18-02-2008
- Size: 410 KB
- Platform: Win2000, Windows Server, WinOther
- Index Your Files
- License: Shareware

Search Files for Windows with Advanced Features using Index FilesIs PortableIs easy to use with a standard windows GUI.Creates Indexes faster and smaller than any other.Compacts the indexesCreate indexes for Only the directories you select.Internal display for found filesIs compact and runs from a Single file without .dll'sSupport UnicodeFind files on your own computer or network with great speed and simplicity. . Search Files for Windows with Index Files and Advanced Features [ Portable ] - by Rafael Castro.
- Publisher: Rafael Castro
- Date: 30-9-2009
- Size: 752 KB
- Platform: Win2000, WinOther















