Sometimes you may need to search without using your default search engine. It’s not obvious how to do that in Chrome, but it’s easy. First go to Chrome’s Settings (they can be reached by pressing those little dots at the far right of Chrome’s toolbar. Then go to the “Search engine” section > “Manage search […]
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TextCrawler is a free program you can use to find and replace words and phrases across multiple files and folders. The program is fast and easy to use. It utilises a Regular Expression engine enabling you to create sophisticated searches, perform batch operations, extract text from files and more. Features: Find and Replace across files; Fast searching, even […]
Agent Ransack is a free and powerful application that will help you to locate on your PC files and information fast and easily. When searching the contents of files Agent Ransack displays the text found. This way you will be able to browse the results without having to separately open each file. Features: Regular expressions […]
Windows Explorer includes powerful search functions, with drawbacks you may like sometimes to avoid. A serious problem is that most of its available filters cannot be selected from some list but you need to know how to write and use them. Another problem is how it presents results. There is only one way, take it […]
Cortana finds what you let her find. The other day I needed to run this program, I knew it was there, I was able to locate it with Windows Explorer, but Cortana wouldn’t find it! Open your Indexing Options (just type in Cortana to open it) and you will see immediately all locations that are […]
Fling is a simple, flexible, safe and powerful search tool you can download free (without any limitations or annoyances). If you search the web often for information or downloadable files you will enjoy Fling. Here is how it works. When you are in an application, anywhere a keyword can be selected –in your browser, a […]
Everything is a free search program able to locate files and folders on your computer instantly. It’s a small but powerful application, easy to use and efficient, that will let you search your PC surprisingly fast. Features: Fast file indexing * Fast file and folder search * Ability to share files with others * Real […]
Windows Explorer 10 (perhaps older versions too) lets you search inside folders using a massive collection of operators. One of the most useful is the bitrate operator, in case you need to locate quickly mp3 files of a particular quality. For example, if you want to search for all your mp3 files in a folder […]
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Search in Windows Explorer by size
Windows Explorer is more powerful than it seems. Writing the word size at the Search Box of Windows Explorer will give some default filters, to find small, large, medium… files. But you can fine tune your search. For example, let’s say you need to find in a folder and its sub-folders all files smaller or […]
By default searching in Windows Explorer will give a list of files and folders. If you are after folders only, you can speed up your search and get clearer results by defining a filter. Press, as usually, F3 or click inside the search box at the right top corner of Windows Explorer. Do not write […]