FileBoss
FileBoss Windows - Search File Content and Find Files & folders Fast. FileBoss Features: Open directories or folders in a fraction of a second. Find all files, directories, and folders that contain an expression in a blink of an eye. You can save, copy, and move files within the program or any other application such as Excel, Word, Adobe Reader, Open Office writer, Thunderbird, Outlook. You can search all files for keywords and exclude files that do not contain them. For example, you want a list of all files that contain engine and car. However, you don't want files that include the word motorcycle. Attach files to email without having to navigate through the directory tree. Insert pictures quickly into documents from any directory.
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FileSeek
FileSeek is a simple-to-use file-search app that also offers advanced functionality for power users. You can search for files using either regular expressions or simple queries. You can even sync search settings between computers. FileSeek uses multithreading technology for faster searches. This allows it to outperform any Windows search. FileSeek does not use background search indexing and will not slow down your computer when it is closed. Save your search criteria as an index profile to reduce your workload. To make your life easier, you can save, load, or modify the most commonly used searches. FileSeek's tabbed search interface makes it easy to start a new search without waiting for a search to be completed. You can open a search in a different tab without opening another browser, keeping your taskbar tidy. FileSeek's regular expressions and query language can be used to search for specific information within files or folders.
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Windows Search
Windows Search is a desktop-based search platform that provides instant search capabilities for most file types and data types. Third-party developers can extend these capabilities by adding new file types or data types. Windows Search is a standard component in Windows 7 and Windows Vista and is enabled by default. Windows Search replaces Windows Desktop Search (WDS). WSS organizes the extracted elements of a collection. Windows Search Protocol allows clients to communicate with servers hosting WSS to ask questions and allow administrators to manage the indexing server. WSS analyzes files and extracts useful information. Then, WSS organizes the extracted information to make it easy for queries to be answered.
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TextSeek
TextSeek is a professional full-text desktop search tool. Unlike the filename search tool like Everything and Listary, TextSeek can search filename and file content easily and quickly. It supports PDF, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, RTF and other formats.
Features:
1. Minimalist design. The search box and results are as intuitive as Google, and the operation is convenient. You can preview the file content with highlighted keywords, and you can quickly browse the search results with ctrl+arrow shortcut keys.
2. Cross-platform and multi-language. It supports Windows and Mac OS systems. It performs full-text search with no omission, and it can search through all languages by using UNICODE. The user interface supports Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, French, German, Arabic and other languages.
3. Multiple search options. The results can be filtered by document type, file name, or file content. They can be also sorted by file size, modification time or relevance. TextSeek uses full-text search technology, so it supports case matching, whole word matching, and original query matching.
4. Batch processing. You can copy, cut and delete the search result files in batch, and you can also export all the search result into a csv file.
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