Snowbird

Snowbird is a simple, portable and fast file manager and integrated search tool. It displays results in real-time as the search progresses.

Free
Windows

snowbird is a simple, portable and fast file manager and integrated search tool. it displays results in realtime as the search progresses. a preview window is available that lets you peek at text files, pictures and webpages from the search results. besides searching in file names, it can also be configured to look for text inside certain files, such as word documents or excel spreadsheets.writes settings to: application folderhow to extract: download the zip file and extract to a folder of your choice. launch snowbird.exe.

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Portable Integrated Search File search

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