Anyway...

Widows XP's and Windows Vista search feature isn't so hot. In fact, it's downright aggravating to use. It consumes huge amounts of your computer's resources, sometimes to the point of causing problems with running programs - and making your computer run like a bogged-down marsh turtle. Windows 7's search feature is faster, and better, but it still consumes an inordinate amount of your computer's precious resources.

An expert computer user will keep his or her computer resources available as much as possible. Why? Because you can never have enough money or resources. You'd rather have resources available so you can do what you want when you want. But on XP and Vista if you're searching for a file, sometimes you can't really do much else while the search is running - well you can but your computer will seem sluggish. On Windows 7, there's a little less drag and it's faster but it's still not the best.

All of us from time to time need to find a certain file - or files - that we need to locate and can't remember where the heck we put them. You can use Windows search and suffer through the slow, resource-hogging process. And still Windows search may find nothing. So you've wasted time and resources on -- nothing.

There's a good freeware search for Windows called Everything, and it's the fastest Windows search we've found. But Everything's one lacking feature is that it cannot look inside of other file. That's why we've picked FileLocater Lite over Everything for this week's freeware program pick. If you want to find something inside a PDF files and Office files, and important feature if you're looking to search everything - which sometimes you have to do to find what you're looking for.

FileLocator Lite 2010 is very easy on resources - in fact you can carry on with your normal activities and you'll not even notice it is running in the background.

FileLocator Lite 2010 is exactly the same program as Agent Ransack with a different name. We chose this version because the name is more descriptive and we felt better about something named FileLocater than Agent Ransack - but they're exactly the same program. Really they are.

It's time to bring in the developer and let him tell you about his program.

"...FileLocator Lite 2010
Free File Searching Utility
Finding files that other search engines miss.

FileLocator Lite is a free reduced functionality version of FileLocator Pro. It is free for both personal and commercial use.

FileLocator Lite is a rebranding of Agent Ransack for corporate environments. It has exactly the same functionality but with a different name and logo. It includes these powerful features:

Immediate results
Found text is shown with highlighted keywords so you don't need to waste time opening each file looking for the right information.

Boolean expressions
Combine search terms using the familiar Boolean operators AND, OR, NOT.

Office formats
Support for popular Office formats including Office 2007 and OpenOffice.

Perl regex
Support for Perl compatible regular expressions.

64-bit Version
Natively compiled 64-bit version for improved compatibility.

Fast searching
Highly efficient search algorithms mean that you spend less time waiting for results.

Printing and Exporting
Results can be shared with others through printing and exporting...."