The Sleuthhound! is a desktop search application that helps you instantly find anything on your PC. The Sleuthhound! searches MS Office files, PDFs, email, attachments, ZIP and RAR archives, all popular music, pictures, videos, the browser history, and Favorites. An easy-to use Wizard allows you to create several Search Zones and take control. A powerful Results Browser provides you with a view of the located files.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English, Czech, Danish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Russian, Spanish
• Release: 2006-03-30
• Size: 2 Mb
• Cost: 19.95 $

FileCenter delivers powerful desktop tools with enhanced file management software, finally giving you an excuse to abandon Windows Explorer. In short, FileCenter is the best thing to happen to your files since the hard disk. With a single, clean interface, our enhanced file management software will bring all of your files together and give you a bundle of easy-to-use tools, like file encryption, pdf conversion, file shredding, and file preview.

• License: Demo
• Language: English, French, German
• Release: 2007-01-01
• Size: 19 Mb
• Cost: Free

Tired of clumsy software applications to search and manage your local PC files? Tired of wasting time searching for that special family picture from a few years back? Tired of searching for that MP3 file of a rock band whose name you have forgotten? Datashake has developed a revolutionary application to search and manage your local PC files with a unique personalized user interface that will save you time and effort.

• License: Freeware
• Language: English
• Release: 2006-04-01
• Size: 2 Mb
• Cost: Free

diskMETA-Lite is a free (limited-featured) version of diskMETA hard disk search software. diskMETA-Lite Advantages: Internet search technology based Fast document retrieval User-friendly interface Full text search Quotation of text fragments with query words highlighted Supports .doc, .txt, .html formats Advanced search option supported by Boolean and proximity operators Automatic launch of applications for document viewing or editing

• License: Freeware
• Language: English
• Release: 2004-05-01
• Size: 1 Mb
• Cost: Free

diskMETA-Pro is a professional version of diskMETA hard disk search software. diskMETA-Pro Advantages: Internet search technology based Fast document retrieval User-friendly interface Full text search Quotation of text fragments with query words highlighted Search within intranet shared folders txt, doc, xls, pdf, html, rtf format and chm, zip, rar archive support Unlimited number of indexes Advanced search option Morphological support

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2004-05-01
• Size: 4 Mb
• Cost: 97.50 $

Instant Document Search is a powerful Google-like search engine that finds local documents (that's the ones stored in your PC) in a blink of an eye. Unlike other search utilities for Windows, this program maintains and updates own document index. Rather than having to browse through thousands of files to analyze if they contain a desired keyword or phrase, the program draws the results from own index and produces instant matches.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2006-07-05
• Size: 871 Kb
• Cost: 29.95 $

Instantly find document, music, video or run program you want within several seconds since you firstly think of it. You don't need Explorer now! Super fast indexing, super fast search by file names, attributes, and tags.. Copy, move and open parent folder of found files, apply smart filtering and sorting. Works with CD\DVD\USB-drives. Let computer guess what you need. Uses artificial intelligence with fuzzy logic to show you the files you want.

• License: Freeware
• Language: English
• Release: 2006-09-27
• Size: 2 Mb
• Cost: Free

diskMETA-Personal is a standard version of diskMETA hard disk search software. diskMETA-Personal Advantages: Internet search technology based Fast document retrieval User-friendly interface Full text search Quotation of text fragments with query words highlighted doc, txt, html, rtf, xls, pdf format support Unlimited number of indexes Option to add a custom extension Advanced search option supported by Boolean and proximity operators

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2004-05-01
• Size: 1 Mb
• Cost: 48.50 $

Sleuthhound PDF Search is a document search tool for your PDF files and MS Office documents. This PDF search software allows you to index and search PDF files and find the info you need in a second. Select folders with your PDF files, enter keywords and the results are instantly displayed. Documents are listed browser-style and the keyword is highlighted and displayed. Search Adobe PDF, MS Word, MP3, HTML, ZIP, text and other documents.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English, Danish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Spanish
• Release: 2006-03-30
• Size: 2 Mb
• Cost: 19.95 $

Quickly search through large numbers of files on your PC or network, including text and binary files, compressed archives, MS Word, Excel and PDF, etc. Find the information you want with powerful text patterns (regular expressions) specifying the form of what you want, instead of literal text. Search and replace with one or many regular expressions to maintain web sites, source code, reports, etc. Extract statistics and knowledge from logs files.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2006-12-14
• Size: 4 Mb
• Cost: 149.00 $

GConvert is a full-featured icon toolkit that lets you extract, create, edit, manage, compile and convert icons. Support for all icon images (any size, color depth plus MacOS X, XP and Vista 32-bit icons); create and convert icons from/to several image formats (ICO, BMP, PNG, PSD, GIF, JPG...); manage icon libraries (ICL, ZIP, DLL); search for icons; edit icon images; store favorites; use batch operations or enhanced icon drag/drop support.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2007-09-03
• Size: 3 Mb
• Cost: 23.00 $

DataPipe interactively or automatically search/replaces data in ANY table. You can correct capitalization in people's names, standardize formatting of addresses, extract email addresses, search and replace using advanced pattern matching, fuzzy and sounds-like matching, trim blanks and multiple whitespace, remove binary characters and html, insert or remove text within a column, write your own transform in VBScript or JScript and heaps more!

• License: Shareware
• Language: English, Polish, Russian
• Release: 2005-11-18
• Size: 1 Mb
• Cost: 590.00 $

Makes it easy for developers AND beginners to design and test patterns. Patterns written with perl regular expressions, egrep regex, MS Word or Brief pattern matching languages can be designed and tested with syntax highlighting and a slick test facility. PatternHelper can run stand-alone, and also integrates with TextPipe Pro and a host of other applications. Default patterns can also be chosen from a list.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2003-06-30
• Size: 1 Mb
• Cost: 20.00 $

ISYS:desktop is designed to quickly and easily connect employees with information that resides on their desktops and networks. Easy to deploy and maintain, ISYS:desktop supports 30 foreign languages and 140 file formats, including MS Office formats, email, attachments, PDF, HTML, databases and more. ISYS:desktop offers multiple search methods, including natural language, Boolean, proximity, phrase matching, fielded and navigation by category.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, ChineseSimplified, ChineseTraditional, Russian
• Release: 2005-05-17
• Size: 40 Mb
• Cost: 570.00 $

Exalead one:desktop, the desktop search engine that adapts to you. Lightweight to download and easy to install, exalead one:desktop is up and running in a few minutes. Its unified user interface allows you to search simultaneously your PC, including network drives, as well as the exalead.com Web search engine. With its patented navigation system, exalead one:desktop gives you the fastest way to find relevant information.

• License: Freeware
• Language: English
• Release: 2006-10-01
• Size: 9 Mb
• Cost: Free

Using Quintura Search, you can create a personalized search scope using tags related to a search query, make search scope more specific and personalize the scope by adding or subtracting tags using a visual map, refine search results removing search links or Web sites from the result list, save the search scope as a file and share it with others, monitor new information becoming available on the Web related to your personal interest.

• License: Freeware
• Language: English, Russian
• Release: 2006-03-01
• Size: 3 Mb
• Cost: Free

DupDupDel is the best and fastest solution for search and remove duplicate files on Windows desktop and network environment. It helps easy to clean up and make more free space on hard drives, flash cards and other medium. DupDupDel allows to find duplicate files by name, size, date, CRC32 hash code and contents. It has very friendly, easy-to-use user interface.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2008-02-07
• Size: 1 Mb
• Cost: 9.95 $

ProtoSearch is the worlds most powerful query submission tool. Search up to 25 different search engines at once ProtoSearch has been named as one of the MOST POPULAR search tools in the WORLD

• License: Demo
• Language: English
• Release: 2005-05-23
• Size: 3 Mb
• Cost: 15.00 $

TagLauncher is a better way to classify your files and find them. By tagging, you put files in virtual folders but files are not limited to be in one of them. It means similar tags makes files similar, therefore finding them will be easier. Instead of using filenames as the search query, tags will be used. They are more meaningful and there is no limitation in their number. Beside their order is not important.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2008-02-01
• Size: 1 Mb
• Cost: 14.99 $

This free program extends the Google Desktop (GD) functionality by providing a native Windows interface and allowing GD to access more file formats. The interface enhancements include search terms highlighting, on-the-fly compressed files extraction and several ways to make searches including a Windows tray pop-up menu. Additionally, the program adds support for searching in compressed archives, MS Help files, WEB archives, and more.

• License: Freeware
• Language: English, Russian
• Release: 2006-02-09
• Size: 2 Mb
• Cost: Free