WinFindr is an easy to use, yet powerful data searching tool for Windows. WinFindr allows you to search for files, folders, registry keys and registry entries with multiple search terms at the same time.

You can also search using wildcards and regular expressions. It’s freeware, fast and lightweight - the portable version is merely 2 MB! The latest version is: 1.2. See Change Log.


For example, let’s say you remember you have cute cat pictures stored somewhere in your Windows PC. You can easily find them with WinFindr:

WinFindr Screenshot - Search
Screenshot 1 - The main search screen. The "and" logic mode allows you to find files whose name contains all of the given search terms.
 

Screenshots

Let’s say you want to know exactly how much data the installations of Winzip and Winrar have stored on your computer. You can do that easily with WinFindr:

WinFindr Screenshot - Search
Screenshot 2 - The main search screen. Notice how you can enter many search terms and you can search with normal search words, with file masks and with regular expressions.

WinFindr Screenshot - Results view
Screenshot 3 - The search results.

WinFindr Screenshot - Ignore
Screenshot 4 - WinFindr also supports ignore search terms. This feature allows you to skip and ignore data matching any of the ignore search terms.

WinFindr Screenshot - Search Log
Screenshot 5 - The search log provides more detailed information about the performed search.

WinFindr Screenshot - Settings
Screenshot 6 - WinFindr provides a wide array of settings, so you can choose how you want the program to work and look like.
 

Key Features



 

Feature Comparison

How does WinFindr compare against other similar apps, you might be wondering right now. Well, aren’t you lucky since we compiled you this handy comparison table of different Windows search utilities so you can decide whether WinFindr is a good Voidtools Everything alternative:

Feature WinFindr Agent Ransack Everything Listary Locate32 RegScanner Registry Finder UltraSearch
File system search info Supports icon Supports icon Supports icon Supports icon Supports icon - - Supports icon
Registry search info Supports icon - - - - Supports icon Supports icon -
Search with multiple terms info Supports icon Supports icon Supports icon - Supports icon Supports icon - -
Exclude search terms info Supports icon - Supports icon - - - - Supports icon
Wildcards info Supports icon Supports icon Supports icon Supports icon Supports icon Supports icon - Supports icon
Regular expressions info Supports icon Supports icon Supports icon Supports icon Supports icon Supports icon Supports icon Supports icon
Command line parameters info Supports icon Supports icon Supports icon Supports icon - Supports icon Supports icon Supports icon
Dark Mode support Supports icon - - - - - Supports icon Supports icon
Single file portable version info Supports icon - Supports icon - - - - Supports icon
Size info 2 MB 159 MB 3 MB 21 MB 4 MB 0.1 MB 16 MB 62 MB
Builtin language support info 28 11 0 * 36 0 ** 0 *** 0 **** 20
License Free Freemium Free Freemium Free Free Free Freemium

* = Has 46 translations available as separate downloads.
** = Has 52 translations available as separate downloads.
*** = Has 48 translations available as separate downloads.
**** = Has 21 translations available as separate downloads.

 

Download

WinFindr comes in a two different but equally tasty flavors: Portable and Setup.


The portable version means that you have one Windows executable file that you can simply copy to any system you want and run it there. When you are done, you can just delete the executable file and there is no other uninstallation or anything else required.

👉 Click here to download the Portable version


The setup version comes with a setup file that you can run and it will install WinFindr to your computer, creates a link in the Start Menu and Desktop to start the app and you can uninstall it from the Control Panel as you normally do with Windows apps.
👉 Click here to download the Setup version


WinFindr works in Windows 11, Windows 10, Windows 8 and Windows 7.


If you are unsure which version to download, you should download the Setup version.




 

Change Log

Improvement: The data searching now works faster, a lot faster. Especially in cases of many search words or many ignore words used at the same time. In the real world benchmark test, the improvement was a mind boggling 2100% speed increase.

New feature: Save and Start allows you to save the search parameters and start the search, with a click of just one button. Previously you had to first run a search before it was possible to save it for future use.
New feature: Dedicated search paths exclusion input allows you to easily define which paths you don't want to be searched. previously this had to be done via the Ignore search terms, which was a bit awkward.
New feature: Dedicated buttons to add new directories to the search sources and exclude sources lists.

Fix: The Search page could be shown in a way that the search terms input field is hidden. This could happen in systems with specific screen resolution and font settings. This is now fixed by including a vertical scroll bar to the Search page.

New feature: Dedicated search source input field allows you to define which drives and/or registry root keys to search, previously this had to be done via the Ignore search terms, which was a bit awkward.
New feature: Ability to save searches. If you are often running the same searches, simply save it and it can be later run with just one click.
New feature: Added a Right Click menu option to copy the selected item’s path to clipboard.
New feature: Added a Right Click menu option to save only the selected items to file.

Fix: The Search Log can sometimes display a wrong number of results found in its total value.
Fix: The search process could get stuck and never complete in some systems using a specific set of search terms.

Improvement: The results list now uses the Windows natural sorting algorithm, the same Windows file explorer uses.
Improvement: The scan progress view now shows how many directories and registry keys have been analyzed, previously only their sum was shown.
Improvement: Added a search progress bar which is visible after the given search source paths have been analyzed already at least one time.
Improvement: In case the program fails to save its settings to disk, there is now an error message informing the user that this just happened.
Improvement: If running in Portable mode, the program will use WinFindr.dat within the program folder to save its settings if the file exists, if not, the WinFindr.dat file is created to the system’s temporary directory.
Improvement: Reset Search is no longer visible in the Right Click menu during the search, as it doesn’t really make sense.
Improvement: Searching with multiple search terms is now a bit faster.

 

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