Tired of Windows search? Try this free file search utility, "FileSeek".

When searching for a word or phrase in a program or website that has hundreds of files it can be quite time consuming. When browsing these files the user might miss what they are looking for in the thousands of lines that they have to look through, causing the search to start all over again. A user can narrow down their search based on what they are trying to find, maybe it is wording that would be in a language folder somewhere. In some places there are multiple language folders, with multiple files in each.

When searching for a word or phrase in a program or website that has hundreds of files it can be quite time consuming. When browsing these files the user might miss what they are looking for in the thousands of lines that they have to look through, causing the search to start all over again. A user can narrow down their search based on what they are trying to find, maybe it is wording that would be in a language folder somewhere. In some places there are multiple language folders, with multiple files in each. Don’t worry though there are tools out there to help search many files at the same time automatically for you.

One of these programs is called FileSeek - http://www.FileSeek.ca/, and it is FREE. File seek allows a user to search many files and folders at the same time to look for a word or phrase. Like in the above example, is a user knows the phrase is inside of a language folder, they can have file seek can search all of the language folder’s files at the same time. When the results are displayed it will show the user which file and which line the word or phrase is located.

Pros and cons to using FileSeek. The main pro about using FileSeek is it can search multiple files and folders at the same time as soon as the search button is clicked. This can save a lot of time, while FileSeek is running its search users can move on to do other things until the search is completed. Not only does it save time for users by searching faster, users can do other things as FileSeek is searching to finish other tasks at the same time.

The only real downside to using this product is the files have to be on the local machine. If four Gigabytes of information needs to be transferred this would take a long time, but if a user can narrow down where to search FileSeek would still help decrease search time.