I have a tendency to save a lot of info on a separate hard drive and many times I can’t remember just where some subject or file is. I use these tools to solve this problem. I can’t get along without these!

Search Utilities

Ava Find (Shareware) First 30 days has all the Pro features enabled, after that you can still use many of it’s features. I found it well worth the cost!
Find any file instantly on your PC
http://www.think-less-do-more.com/avafind/

XFind (Freeware)
Search .txt and HTML files
http://www.xteq.com/products/xfnd/index.html

InfoRapid Search & Replace (Freeware)

Full text search in Html, Rtf, Pdf, WinWord and Excel files and many other file formats

ISYS Hindsite (Freeware)
Index and search previously visited web pages - without bookmarking them!

You saw something on the web, but you can’t remember where, and you didn’t make a bookmark. ISYS:hindsite offers Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer users the unique ability to perform full text searches on the contents of previously accessed web pages.
http://www.isysusa.com/products/hindsite/

I’m was thinking about trying out the Google Desktop to see how good it is.

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