Seeker

Windows comes with the basic of almost everything, letting you easily find and work with files on your computer. Chances are you’re not really fond of these default options. For instance, Seeker is a reliable alternative to the search function in windows, which can easily find files based on different criteria.

The application is good to go after it’s installed, and this doesn’t take a lot of your time. With the main window up, accommodation becomes a walk in the park, especially since it resembles the old school interface found in the Windows XP search function.

On the side you find all filter options. You don’t have to configure all of them, but they do cover quite the variety of options. Found in expandable menus, these include text and extension filters, time and date options, size specifications, including a replace option for text strings in case you’re trying to find documents.

Needless to say that you need to specify a target location, which is either pasted in a dedicated field, or selected from a pretty intuitive drop-down menu which enlists all folders on your computer in a tree list.

Initiating a search operation can last only a little while if you’re not interested in too many details. For instance, it’s possible to enlist all files of a particular format, without having to write the name, or simply look up items modified in a custom time range.

Results are delivered as they’re detected. The list shows items in an organized table with column headers for name, location, number of occurrences identified, file type, size, and flags. Simple filters can be applied by clicking on column headers. The default system context menu can be used on results to process files in various ways.

Taking everything into consideration, we can state that Seeker is a powerful, intuitive search tool which lets you apply an abundance of filters to almost instantly retrieve files of interest. The visual design poses no accommodation problems, while file operations are easy to handle since it sports all default functions.