Application: Agent Ransack
File Search Utility
Agent Ransack is a free tool for finding files and information on your hard drive fast and efficiently. When searching the contents of files Agent Ransack displays the text found so you can quickly browse the results without having to separately open each file!
Agent Ransack provides compelling advantages over similar search tools:
- Regular expressions that allow complex rule based searches.
- Immediate contents results view.
- Various wizards to walk the user through the searching process.
2 reviews for Agent Ransack
8th of November 2009 at 05:33:37
I have used Agent Ransack for a couple of years now and love its simplicity and ease of use. If you need to find information that might be contained inside a document but you don't know where that document is or what it is named, this tool is invaluable. Highly recommended.
29th of January 2010 at 11:05:55
This the place you go when Windows XP or Windows 7 search just doesn't cut it anymore. This program combines extreme capacity with remarkable ease-of-use.
The features of Agent Ransack that make it my favorite search tool include the ability to find strings in files, powerful regular expressions to precisely tailor your search, and the ability to right-click on a drive or folder to search within it (if you're running Windows 7 x64, go to http://windows7forums.com/windows-7-software/15272-add-context-menu-item-agent-ransack-2.html, post #18 to set up the context menu).
Agent Ransack wasn't designed to do everything. Windows 7 search is faster, sorts results by category, and handles music and other multimedia files well. But what it doesn't do -and there's a lot it doesn't do - Agent Ransack does very well indeed.
Agent Ransack is, in short, worth paying good money for.
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