Description
Windows' built-in search can spin for minutes and still miss the file. Everything takes a different route: it reads the NTFS file index directly, builds a database of hundreds of thousands of files in seconds, and returns matches the instant you type — waiting essentially disappears.
Free, on Windows, a program of a couple of megabytes with a tiny resident footprint.
Genuinely instant search: results appear from the first character, at millisecond speed across a whole drive of hundreds of thousands of files — a different experience from system search entirely.
Fast indexing, tiny footprint: reading the filesystem index rather than scanning file by file means the first build takes seconds and the resident process uses only tens of megabytes.
Flexible filter syntax: wildcards, regular expressions and filters by extension, size and modification time let a complex search fit on one line.
Portable build: an installation-free version travels on a USB stick, useful for poking at files on someone else's machine.
Can serve the network: HTTP and ETP/FTP servers expose the local index so other devices on the LAN can search it.
Free, on Windows, a program of a couple of megabytes with a tiny resident footprint.
Features
Genuinely instant search: results appear from the first character, at millisecond speed across a whole drive of hundreds of thousands of files — a different experience from system search entirely.
Fast indexing, tiny footprint: reading the filesystem index rather than scanning file by file means the first build takes seconds and the resident process uses only tens of megabytes.
Flexible filter syntax: wildcards, regular expressions and filters by extension, size and modification time let a complex search fit on one line.
Portable build: an installation-free version travels on a USB stick, useful for poking at files on someone else's machine.
Can serve the network: HTTP and ETP/FTP servers expose the local index so other devices on the LAN can search it.
