Portable IFilter Explorer

Portable IFilter Explorer is a small software application developed specifically for helping you view IFilters used by different programs, such as MSN Desktop Search, Sharepoint Portal Server, Windows Sharepoint Services, SQL Server 2000/2005, Indexing services, and Exchange Server 2007.

IFilter are plugins employed by Microsoft’s search engines in order to index various file formats, like documents, email attachments, and audio metadata.

This is the portable version of IFilter Explorer. You can store it on USB flash drives or other portable devices to have it with you all the time. You may run it without administrative privileges.

Gaining access to its features requires only opening the executable file because there’s no setup included in the process. It does not write entries to your Windows registry and leave other configuration files on the target PC. It actually saves the settings data on the storage device. Getting rid of it implies a simple deletion task of the files that you have downloaded from the Internet.

Portable IFilter Explorer reveals a straightforward layout that won’t take much of your time to decode it. The tool employs a multi-tabbed environment for helping you view information about each supported application. Refreshing the list with programs can be done with a single click.

You can check out details about all detected IFilters, such as extensions, file types, content types, methods, persistent handler names, and persistent handlers.

The utility offers you the possibility to show extensions with or without IFilters and group items by extensions, file types, content type, IFilters, methods, signatures, persistent handler names, persistent handler add-ins, or persistent handlers.

What’s more, you are allowed to copy the selected row to the clipboard so you can paste the information into other programs, copy file path or filename to the clipboard, select all details displayed in the main window with a single click, as well as export the information to TXT, CSV, or XML file format.

Tests have shown that Portable IFilter Explorer carries out a task quickly and without errors. It eats up from a low up to a moderate amount of CPU and memory resources.

Portable IFilter Explorer provides several handy features for helping you get a list with IFilters employed by different applications.