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UltraSearch is a Nice Windows Search Tool

The default Windows search tool has come a long way since the early versions of the OS. The latest version, called the Windows Search 4.0 is pretty good and provides an easy and powerful solution for finding any file on the PC through system level indexing.

However, nothing is perfect and neither is Windows Search. And that’s the reason we have tools like UltraSearch. It doesn’t look for Windows system level index or background processes. It directly searches on the Master File Table (MFT) of the NTFS partitions and delivers better results.

While using this tool I found that the results appear super quick. I got the results while typing the word. It also displays path, size of file, last access and last change date.

UltraSearch Windows Search tool

It displays all the partitions of your computer, their total size and free space. You can check or uncheck any drive to include or exclude from the search result. You can open a file in the result by double clicking on it.

I found it handy because it gives better result than Vista search result (yeah, I know I need Windows 7, I know). Overall, a good replacement for the default Windows Search tool.

Features

  • Finds files on your computer quickly.
  • More effective than Windows inbuilt search.
  • The tool is portable and comes as an installer within a zip file.
  • Works on Windows 7/ Vista/ XP/ 2000.

Download UltraSearch to for a faster file search on your Windows PC.

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Written By and published on Tuesday, March 9th, 2010.


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  • Luis

    I’ve been using Everything for years and it does the same thing.
    http://www.voidtools.com/

    • Abhijeet

      That one looks good too.

  • Edward Fairchild

    I just downloaded and ran UltraSearch v1.2 from Jam Software. Even giving the high praises that Windows 7 Search gets, I still find it incomplete for simple file searching. I have tried three or four products to suppliment it, but this one topped all the others in speed and completeness. Thanks for the tip.

    • Abhijeet

      Glad you found it useful, Edward. :)

  • Janaki

    Have just tested and benchmarked Ultrasearch. It is very slow compared to Everything.

    The search feature is more advanced in Everything. You can type into the search bar the following:
    .jpg
    This will result in all jpg files to be listed

    Next you can add a space and the word book
    .jpg book
    This will reduce the list to files containing these 2 elements in the file name.

    You can then further refine (limit) the search to include the word circle or any other word:
    .jpg book circle
    This will then produce a file list that only contains these 3 elements in the file title.

    As you enter each new or additional letter into the search bar the displayed search results are filtered immediately.

    With Ultrasearch as you type the space after a word it stops giving any search results.

    There is an alpha version of Everything in the works that is ultra fast compared to the extremely fast current stable production release of Everything.

    A handy feature in Everything that is missing in Ultrasearch is that it does not display a file extension column. It is hand to sort on this column to get similar file types bunched together i.e all pdf’s or doc’s.

    A handy feature of Ultrasearch is how easy it is to log or unlog a drive. This is done by selecting or unselecting the drive in the bottom of the Ultrasearch window. It is a pain to do this with the current version of Everything.

    ——————–

    Abhijeet and Himanshu you have done good work. A nice selection of tools listed here in you blog. Maybe you could add some more value and depth to tools that you present.

    For instance your readers might like to know that programs of this type that directly access the MFT have to get permission if you have the UAC turned on. So each time you load the program you need user intervention. This means that the program cannot be included to start at boot time without user intervention.

    • Abhijeet

      Thanks Janaki for testing it out. There’s always a better tool available and it looks like Everything is the better one here. And thanks for the advice. We will keep that in mind.

  • Gruf

    Everything is IMHO a better alternative than UltraSearch. I just wish it could do network drives.

  • Edward Fairchild

    After Janaki’s and Gruf’s comments, I went back and looked more closely at Everything and UltraSearch. They seem to run at about the same speed on my Intel i7-950 machine. Besides those listed by Janaki, the only other differences seem to be four: (1) UltraSearch doesn’t do folders; (2) UltraSearch comes up unsorted; (3) Everything has lots of options while UltraSearch seems to have none at all; (4) I have been able to lockup UltraSearch. I have never locked up Everything.

    • Abhijeet

      Edward, that’s good work. Thanks for all the information!

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