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Does anyone know if there are any search utilities (preferably free ones) out there that I can search a text string in all different file types in windows? Windows Explorer wouldn't do it. Please post some tips. Thanks...
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You mean I've to write a script that uses "grep"? I thought grep is a function in Linux/Unix only?
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follow the link.. it's a win32 build of the unix program :P
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Cool! Thanks... I'll try that. :D
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a friend is using Copernic which he swears by. He does say one thing though: make sure to add .php or whatever other file extensions [that it doesn't have already] so it can index them.. otherwise, you'll get ~nothing.
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The quickfind in Google Desktop is nice, but if you keep sensitive information on your HD, I wouldn't use it, since it reports to Google for research purposes.

http://desktop.google.com/
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