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SwiftSearch

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SwiftSearch is a lightweight program whose purpose is to help you quickly find the files you need on your Windows machine without ever requiring you to index your drives. Most search utilities that achieve similar speeds do so by indexing drives while the computer is idle, but...

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  • FreeOpen Source

Platforms

  • Windows
4.3 / 5 Avg rating (3)
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Properties

  1.  Lightweight

Features

  1.  Portable
  2.  File Search
  3.  Persistent Linux
  4.  Support for regular expressions

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SwiftSearch information

  • Developed by

    Mehrdad N.
  • Licensing

    Open Source and Free product.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 4.3
  • Alternatives

    76 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

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Our users have written 2 comments and reviews about SwiftSearch, and it has gotten 21 likes

SwiftSearch was added to AlternativeTo by jhertel on May 29, 2013 and this page was last updated May 5, 2021.

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Top Positive Comment
hced
Sep 24, 2023
1

Ultra-fast and powerful little search tool. I recommend using this in conjunction with Hidden Start (HStart) by NTWind (https://alternativeto.net/software/hidden-start/about/) in order to circumvent the admin elevation-dialog that pops up everytime you run the program.

TBayAreaPat
Jun 29, 2022
1

This seems fast, very lightweight, and good layout. One thing though, it doesn't allow Rename of the file in the list from context menu. A few File Searchers are like this, but being easily able to rename a file seems important.

What is SwiftSearch?

SwiftSearch is a lightweight program whose purpose is to help you quickly find the files you need on your Windows machine without ever requiring you to index your drives. Most search utilities that achieve similar speeds do so by indexing drives while the computer is idle, but because idleness detection is so difficult to get right, in practice they end up slowing down the whole system just to speed up search. SwiftSearch works differently: given administrator privileges, it completely bypasses the file system (only NTFS supported) and reads the file table directly every time, which speeds up search by many orders of magnitude. Typically searches yield full results in ~10 seconds or less, a significant speedup for many users. As a bonus, this program also supports path-based search (for example, you can search for "Program\Windows*"), regular expressions (just start the search name with '>' character), and full directory sizes. Its goal is to be simple, swift, and intuitive to use.