WinFindr allows you to easily search for files, folders and also Windows registry data with multiple search terms at the same time. You can look for files inside Zip and Rar archives, and search for data inside text files, and Microsoft Word, OpenOffice and PDF files. It's freeware, fast and lightweight.

Features

  • Search for files, folders, registry keys and registry entries, all at the same time.
  • Supports searching with normal search words, file masks (wildcards) and regular expressions.
  • Supports searching with multiple search terms at the same time.
  • Also supports negative search terms, allowing you to skip any data.
  • Search for data inside text documents, inside Microsoft Word Doc documents, OpenOffice/LibreOffice Writer Odt documents and inside text-based PDF files.
  • Search for files inside Zip and Rar archives.
  • Search for files based on their size.
  • Save search settings and perform the same search again in the future easily by just running the saved search.
  • Save the found results in TXT, CSV or HTML file format.
  • Supports Windows Dark Mode.
  • Comes with these translations builtin: Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Czech, Danish, English, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese.
  • Has a portable version that consists of a single executable file. That means you can just copy one file to any Windows PC to search data there. No installation. No uninstallation. Just copy and go.
  • WinFindr is freeware, lightweight and easy to use. No bells and whistles, no nonsense.

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

What's New

Key Changes:

  • Two new natural language search modes: Similar word matching and phonetic matching.
  • You can now have WinFindr to stay running in the tray area as an icon, and configure it to start automatically with Windows.
  • Improved compatibility with screen readers and other accessibility features.

Improvements:

  • New feature: Added two new natural language search modes, to find data based on word similarity and a phonetic search.
  • New feature: You can now set WinFindr to automatically start with Windows. This is available in Settings.
  • New feature: You can set WinFindr to stay running in the Windows task bar as a tray icon. This is available in Settings.
  • New feature: You can now set WinFindr to always start with administrator privileges. This is also available in Settings.
  • New feature: Added a compact tabs mode, which will better utilize all the available space within the program window.
  • The search now displays an indeterminate progress if actual progress is not possible to be shown, for example when the system is searched for the first time.
  • Improved the compatibility with screen reader software by adding a special screen reader UI mode. Also available from the Settings.
  • The special screen reader UI mode is automatically enabled if a screen reader is detected to be running in the system.
  • Increased the default maximum search result count from 999 to 9999.
  • If user attempts to activate a license and no license if found, the error message now also reminds the user that an internet connection is required to activate a new license.
  • Clicking the result list now closes the Filters menu, if open.
  • The Search Log now uses a normal font color instead of the gray font.
  • The user interface now automatically adjusts its default font size to better match the system font size.
  • The program window title now says WinFindr Pro for those awesome people who have bought the Pro version.

Fixes:

  • When changing settings and using the Restore Default Settings button, it was possible that Save Settings was not visible, making it rather impossible to save the new settings.
  • In some systems, starting the search could always display a "Failed to write settings to disk" error. Which was rather annoying.
  • In some systems, sometimes after resizing the program window, there might be a phantom scroll bar drawn over the UI. This was a cosmetic issue, not affecting the way the program worked but it could be rather distracting.
  • In Settings, the translation list was so wide its scroll bar was usually outside of the visible user interface area.
  • It was possible to start the search without any search options enabled.
  • Clicking the Restore Default Settings did not always fully restore the default settings.
  • When searching only for files, the Sort By filter in the Results list was still showing sort options relating to folders and registry data.
  • If you had search results listed, unchecking the Hide counts from the tab names option didn't work.
  • Changing the color mode without restarting the WinFindr could cause the Apply My License button to be shown with the wrong color.
  • The user interface could sometimes display an additional vertical scroll bar.
  • Version 1.7's executable was not digitally signed.

Known Issues:

  • If you have search results visible and then minimize and maximize the program window, some visual corruption might occur within the WinFindr window.
  • In the text-only search result mode, the scroll direction of the mouse wheel is reversed.
  • Changing the result view settings while there are already results listed can cause the listing user interface to get corrupted.