Top 15 Cool Find Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

Cool Find is powerful file search & desktop search software for Windows XP, developed by Nihuo Software.

Main Features:
Search files in compressed files
Search files both on PC and LAN
Unicode string search (grep)
String search in Microsoft Office files (including older binary formats)
Show summary info of mp3 files, office files...
Export search result to txt, html or playlist file
Powerful rename function
Find duplicate files and redundant files to optimize your hard disk.
Detailed date and time term search
Supports Drag, Drop and Copy of files, even including those in compressed files.
Supports thumbnail views of HTML and PowerPoint files
Displays the first hit line in string search
Supports search in JAR, EAR, WAR files
Enhanced export of results ...

1. Search GT

Search GT Fully integrated with Windows Explorer, Search GT is a light and fast replacement for Windows built-in file search engine that parses the MFT instead of indexing files in the background. This results in a negligible footprint on system performance and in always up-to-date search results.Search GT also features customizable search......

2. Advanced File Finder

Advanced File Finder Generate file list of all files with specific name pattern, extension, properties and attributes, as well as text and binary content by recursively scanning specified directories and searching for matching files.- All files can then be saved to file list; copied to a new location specified using either absolute or......

3. Funduc Search and Replace

Funduc Search and Replace Search and Replace for Windows is a fast, easy to use grep utility for search and replace in multiple files, directories and archives. Supports grep style Regular Expressions. Script language for webmasters and programmers.......

4. spot

spot Tiny ack-style file search utility. All arguments constitute the search text. No need to wrap most searches in double quotes. Short & written in Bash - just find & grep: you can edit it easily to suit your liking. Searches most things by default instead of some known predefined extensions.......

5. ack

ack Ack is designed as a standalone (one perl file) replacement for 99% of the uses of grep. ack is intelligent about the files it searches. It knows about certain file types, based on both the extension on the file and, in some cases, the contents of the file.Ack ignores backup......

6. Multi Replacer

Multi Replacer A very capable Windows Grep, search, replace and data extraction tool.- Search for files using powerful text matching commands called Regular Expressions.- You can search/replace one or more than one information on one or more than one file resources.- After the searcing process you can save search results (data extraction).-......

7. PRGrep

PRGrep PRGrep is a powerful program to search strings inside files. Rather than showing a file list, the matching lines of text inside each file are also displayed. PRGrep has moreover a lot of interesting functions as search inside binary or compressed files, several search and exclusion modes (text, AND, OR,......

8. AstroGrep

AstroGrep AstroGrep is A Microsoft Windows GUI File Searching (grep) utility. Features include regular expressions, versatile printing options, stores most recent used paths and has a "context" feature which is very nice for looking at source code.......

9. PowerGREP

PowerGREP Quickly search through large numbers of files on your PC or network using powerful text patterns to find exactly the information you want. Search and replace with plain text or regular expressions to maintain web sites, source code, reports, .........

10. V - The File Viewer

V - The File Viewer V is an all-purpose File Manager for Windows.V is not just another Windows Explorer replacement. Its main strength is its inbuilt file viewer which excels at viewing files quickly - whether they are 100 bytes or 100 gigabytes in size. A Dual Pane interface (optional) makes it very easy to......

11. dnGREP

dnGREP dnGrep allows you to search across files with easy-to-read results. Search through text files, Word documents, PDFs, and archives using text, regular expression, XPath, and phonetic queries. dnGrep includes search-and-replace, whole-file preview, right-click search in File Explorer, and much more.Features: - Search across text files, Word documents, PDFs, and archives......

12. UniversalCodeGrep

UniversalCodeGrep UniversalCodeGrep (ucg) is an extremely fast grep-like tool specialized for searching large bodies of source code. It is intended to be largely command-line compatible with Ack, to some extent with ag, and where appropriate with grep. Search patterns are specified as PCRE regexes.ucg is intended to address the impatient programmer's......

13. Batch File Manager

Batch File Manager Rename, move, copy, delete, and otherwise manage multiple files.- Rename multiple files according to the rules and pattern you specify using powerful editor with syntax highlighting.- Modify original file name by removing or copying its parts, changing letter case, or adding dynamic content like random characters or file properties.-......

14. Bytessence DuplicateFinder

Bytessence DuplicateFinder BDF, Bytessence DuplicateFinder is a freeware program designed to detect clones of the files stored on your computer. Duplicate files have a negative impact over your system's performance because they waste valuable space, they increase the antivirus scan time, they make defragmenting take ages and they make it harder for......

15. RecentX

RecentX RecentX gives you fastest access to your files, folders, programs, websites and also clipboard history in Windows. What's special is that it automatically remembers your recent and favorite items so that you can access them faster than searching all the files, folders etc. You can assign tags to all of......