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Best way to *confidently* search files and contents in Windows without using an indexing service?

Fresh5 days ago
Mar 15, 202622233 views
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Back in Windows XP I knew that doing a file search and checking "Search file contents" (or whatever it was) I would get my results if I waited patiently. In Vista, I felt I had absolutely no confidence that what I had typed had been thoroughly searched for, even with all the "Search non-indexed loc…

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Agent Ransack is excellent -- it's fast, lightweight (single <1 MB application), powerful (regular expression matching of file names and content), and you can trust the results.

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