SearchMyFiles

SearchMyFiles is a non-indexing portable alternative to the standard "Search For Files And Folders" module of Windows.

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Windows

searchmyfiles is a nonindexing portable alternative to the standard "search for files and folders" module of windows. it allows you to easily search files in your system by wildcard, by last modified/created/last accessed time, by file attributes, by file content (text or binary search), and by the file size. searchmyfiles allows you to make a very accurate search that cannot be done with windows search. for example: you can search all files created in the last 10 minutes with size between 500 and 700 bytes. after you made a search, you can select one or more files, and save the list into text/html/csv/xml file, or copy the list to the clipboard.searchmyfiles is portable, and you can use it from a usb flash drive without leaving traces in the registry of the scanned computer. the utility is a part of nirlauncher pack.

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Portable File search Local Search USB drives Non Indexing search

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