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.

Features

  • Blazing fast
  • Simple
  • Powerful

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Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License V2.0

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  • Very usefull but needs ability to drag drop found files to other apps. Wish I had time to study it.
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  • I didn't think it was possible to search by file names at such a speed
  • i test many search angine all are crap, but this soft is easy to use , fast and powerful. Thanks to developer
  • I really like this program, I use it very often. However, it will NOT forget the previous searches. If I want to carry on a search, looking for the same thing. How dow I make it NOT search for items that have already been dealt with? e.g. search for a file that has a computer file that has attached itself to an item, I have removed this item. e.g. A torrent file that has been downloaded, "completely", then the computer has a catastrophic crash. The file is still there, when I restart my dowload, my torrent program adds a extention to the incomplete file. Say ".! qB". the torrent program can still see the extension, so I then end up with a duplicate of every file. Anyway, the upshot is, "SWIFTSEARCH", will not forget OLD searches, and still finds the files that have been edited - that it has the torrent extension removed. e.g. www.torrentfile.txt.!qB - it still shows the file with that extension in swiftsearch, but when I find the file, the extension is not there. This happens even though, I have closed the program and restarted it. BTW, it is no good telling to use code to change this, I am too old to use it. Thanks in advance.
    Reply from SwiftSearch
    Posted 2020-04-14
    Hi there! Thank you for the feedback. There's actually no code in the program to "remember" previous searches, so that cannot be happening. If you run the program and see a file, the file definitely exists. If that's surprising, I think there must be a confusion somewhere. Perhaps there's something else on your computer that "hides" the files so you don't see them normally, but see them through this program. Or perhaps the files are normally marked as "hidden" (downloaders sometimes do this). Or perhaps the file extensions are hidden, and the file extensions that you see are confusing? You're welcome to post in the forums and I can try to help you (I'm a little confused about your problem currently), but again, to be clear, this program doesn't try to remember your searches at all.
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Additional Project Details

Operating Systems

Windows

Languages

English

Intended Audience

End Users/Desktop

User Interface

Win32 (MS Windows)

Programming Language

C++, C

Related Categories

C++ File Managers, C File Managers

Registered

2012-12-16