Portable Puggle

Designed as the portable counterpart of Puggle Desktop Search, Portable Puggle is an application you can use to quickly perform file searches after building indexes to speed up the whole operation.

The entire tool's wrapped in a single file that you can save in a custom location on the disk or copy to a USB flash drive, in order to seamlessly launch Puggle on any computer with minimum effort. Just remember that you must have Java installed. It doesn't modify Windows registry settings.

The app creates an icon in the systray at startup and gets sent there on close. Index properties can be customized at startup, such as adding new drives or directories, or asking Portable Puggle to display text and thumbnails when showing search results.

It's not capable of finding files of any format. Instead, it offers support for JPEG, PNG, GIF, TXT, PDF, DOC, PDF, RTF, WPD, HTML, XLS, PPT, ZIP, RAR and MP3. Any of these extensions can be disabled to speed up the search. Plus, you can analyze index information to find out the last full index time and size.

Indexing may take a long time, depending on the size of the specified locations, and it can be stopped. You can find items by entering filenames, as well as filter search results by content (music, pictures, documents) instead of looking into all types.

On search completion, you can view the name, full path, date of last modification and thumbnail of each item, in addition to the total containing files and folders. Puggle also reveals the file's reputation based on the user community, and opens the object's location in your default file explorer on click.

Search operations were carried out fast in our tests while CPU and RAM usage remained minimal. However, we've noticed that it didn't identify files by name in some cases, although we made sure they existed in the indexed locations. Other than that, Portable Puggle is practical and easy to use.