Ultra File Search

If you miss the old Windows search interface, with its up-front search criteria and the various ways search results can be listed e.g., file location and creation date, I recommend Ultra File Search.

This “free” utility offers many of your old familiar search options and displays results. And does so without requiring Vista/Windows 7 background indexing. It does not waste system resources and does not use extra space on the disk.

Ultra File Search has four tabs - Files and Folders, Containing Text, Date and Size, and Attributes. Each tab controls several criteria. Default settings are user friendly and easy to adjust with only a click of ones mouse.

For example: Default settings under “Containing Text” are for whole words and no hidden, system, media, or image files. However you can search by phrase, add case sensitivity, and exclude certain words.

Other tabs are equally flexible. You can search by one or more folders or media (optical, hard, or flash drive) by simple full or partial text or with wildcards and then as needed adding more restrictions.

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