I need a better search tool for Windows

[Cyber Akuma]

I loved the search tools that Windows 95 and 98 came with, they did everything I needed.

Windows 2000 and XP were a bit of a hassle to use, I had to jump through hoops to make them do what I want because they attempted to over-simplify them, but I could still make them work.

Vista and Windows 7 however............ ARGH!

They seem to be heavily based on the idea of indexed locations and mostly being used to find a photo or document.

Typically, when I search im looking for a specific folder (half the time a program folder), archive, or executable. Pretty much never in an indexed location either. I disabled indexing because I did not want it wasting resources indexing folders I never used, and indexing the entire system would just slow my extremely outdated desktop down to a crawl.

In fact, I can't even find the file search for Windows Vista and 7 anymore, it seems like you type the name of what you want to find in the search field of the start menu and pray that it doesn't auto-start a program with a similar name.

I don't need anything fancy or overly complicated, I don't even need indexing capability, I just want a preferably freeware search tool that was similar to the Windows 95/98 search tool.

[MagicAndre1981]

try this http://www.locate32.net/

[+Xinok Subscriber²]

Ultra File Search doesn't index anything.

http://www.ultrafilesearch.com/

Everything only lets you search by file name, but it's very fast. It indexes the entire drive in seconds and the results are updated as you type.

http://www.voidtools.com/

[Salty Wagyu]

Windows Grep is nice if you're looking for specific text inside text files, Windows 7 Search doesn't seem to have the ability to look inside my .log files.