SearchMyFiles
SearchMyFiles is a non-indexing portable alternative to the standard "Search For Files And Folders" module of Windows. It allows you to easily search files in your system by wildcard, by last modified/created/last accessed time, by file attributes, by file content...
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Windows
Features
Properties
- Lightweight
Features
- Local Search
- File Search
- Full-Text Search
- Portable
- No registration required
- Works Offline
- Ad-free
- Non-Indexing search
- Duplicate File Finder
- Network Scanner
Tags
- removable-media
- search-tool
- lan-search
- network-search
SearchMyFiles News & Activities
Recent News
Recent activities
TheEmperorArt added SearchMyFiles as alternative to Glary Duplicate Cleaner
TheEmperorArt added SearchMyFiles as alternative to Aomei Partition Assistant for Cleanup
TheEmperorArt added SearchMyFiles as alternative to EaseUS DupFiles Cleaner
TheEmperorArt added SearchMyFiles as alternative to iBeesoft Duplicate Finder
TheEmperorArt added SearchMyFiles as alternative to Ashampoo Duplicate File Finder
TheEmperorArt added SearchMyFiles as alternative to FileFusion
POX added SearchMyFiles as alternative to DeepPeek
POX added SearchMyFiles as alternative to Cardinal File Search
Hasanpirinc added SearchMyFiles as alternative to FileFlow File Search
POX added SearchMyFiles as alternative to FileMinutes
What is SearchMyFiles?
SearchMyFiles is a non-indexing portable alternative to the standard "Search For Files And Folders" module of Windows. It allows you to easily search files in your system by wildcard, by last modified/created/last accessed time, by file attributes, by file content (text or binary search), and by the file size. SearchMyFiles allows you to make a very accurate search that cannot be done with Windows search. For Example: You can search all files created in the last 10 minutes with size between 500 and 700 bytes.
After you made a search, you can select one or more files, and save the list into text/html/csv/xml file, or copy the list to the clipboard.
SearchMyFiles is portable, and you can use it from a USB flash drive without leaving traces in the Registry of the scanned computer. The utility is also a part of 
NirLauncher Pack.
SearchMyFiles information
Developed by
NirSoft Licensing
Proprietary and Free product.Rating
Average rating of 3.7Alternatives
111 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
Comments and Reviews
UI is not the most convenient and is quite dated, but the app just works! Does its job without complaints.
I reported a bug to the author of this software but he didn't reply nor correct it. Later I found a second bug but why should I report it? Better to switch to another software.
Fast effective for finding duplicates. Doesn't do fuzzy matches. I don't see group delete options like older/newer.
Not sure why this isn't an alternative to applications like FileSeek, InfoRapid Search & Replace or dnGREP.
Is it because you haven't submitted it yet? :P
Great application.
But UI/UX could be massively improved and simplified, such as hiding non-frequent options under an 'advanced' drop-down panel or 'more options' or such.
Another major downside is that when a text string search is found, it tells you the binary position in the file, which is utterly useless, and doesn't state the line number.
Another major negative is that it doesn't show preview of the lines where it found the match, such as the first few lines before and after - instead only showing a list of files where the match was found. And if I remember correctly, opening the listed file also doesn't take you to the line where search text was found.
A better alternative is BareGrepPro - although unfortunately it's not free, and has a 5-min timer before it auto-closes.
This application could not compare duplicate files using hashing.
SMF-Search My File can do deduplication. SMF is better.