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Key Details of Effective File Search
- Easily find files on your PC
- Last updated on
- There have been 7 updates
- Virus scan status:
Clean (it’s extremely likely that this software program is clean)
Editors’ Review
No matter what your operating system, your PC has its own search capabilities. However, Effective File Search kicks your file searches up a few notches by giving you more options.
Effective File Search improves on the basic search functions, offering tools that handle simple and complicated needs alike:
- Search Options: You can search files on hard drives, network drives, and external devices.
- File Support: It supports many file formats including MS Office, PDF, HTML, and other text and binary files.
- Filters: You can set searches to filter by file size, date, or even specific content in text or hex.
- Advanced Searches: For those who need it, there is an option to use complex search patterns with regular expressions.
Once you find your files, you can organize them right from the search results. You can open, rename, copy, or delete files just like you do in Windows Explorer.
Effective File Search is not just for basic searches. It meets the needs of various users, from casual to professional:
- Search Templates: You can save the settings of your searches as templates. This makes future searches faster.
- Manage Results: You can handle files directly from the search results, doing things like opening, renaming, copying, or deleting.
- Business Tools: The software includes features for businesses too. It has tools for exporting search results and making reports.
The user interface could use a splash of color, but it's easy to navigate. It consists of three tabs (Main, Date and Size, Containing Text) that break down your search methods. You can find files using the three tab functionalities separately, or use them in unison to drill down into your searches. The Main tab let us conduct a search based on the file's name and folder. Considering the task at hand, the program quickly pulled up hundreds of files that met the criteria. From there, we were able to narrow down our search by entering specific date and size specifications. Again, the program quickly scanned and pulled matching files. Finally, we entered specific whole words that we wanted to include in the final scan, and the much narrower results included our test items. Menu options include copying and cutting files, moving them to specific folders, as well as deleting and renaming them.
Bottom Line
Effective File Search offers a Help menu with search and index capabilities, and the 30-day trial period is ample time to learn how to navigate its interface and features. If you're looking for a more comprehensive file search program, we highly recommend this program.
What’s new in version 6.8.1
- This version may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.
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