FileLocator Pro Portable

FileLocator Pro Portable is a tiny software app developed in order to help you find any item on your hard drive, with support for regular expressions and many other parameters.

This is the portable version of FileLocator Pro and therefore, the installation process is not a necessity. The Windows registry and Start menu/screen are not going to suffer any changes, and there will be no leftovers after its removal.

Another notable aspect is that by copying the program files to an external data drive, you make it possible to run FileLocator Pro Portable on any computer you have access to.

The UI you are met with can be handled by both novice and power users, as it is quite well organized with several tabs. What’s more, comprehensive Help contents are provided, so as to help people learn how to handle the software utility at its full potential.

This application enables you use regular expressions, whole words, plain text, Boolean RegEx and DOS expressions to help you refine your search, as well as input date ranges and attributes (archive, folder, system, hidden, compressed etc.). In addition to that, you can look within compressed files such as 7Z, ARJ, CAB, CHM, ISO, RAR, RPM, TAR and ZIP.

Results are displayed in the main window along with name, location, size, type and modified, create and last accessed dates. Moreover, you can view search stats such as total number of found items, total size, and status, as well as save them to the hard drive in a TXT, CSV or HTML format.

To sum up, FileLocator Pro Portable is a useful piece of software, with a good response time, an intuitive environment and plenty of options to help you refine your search. CPU and memory usage is low to moderate, and our tests did not reveal any errors or crashes.