Easy Text File Search7-09A

Easy HR Text File Search is a simple-to-use application that enables you to perform searches across multiple text documents at the same time. It offers support for filters and can be easily handled by users.

Easy installer and GUI

The setup operation is a speedy job that shouldn't give you any trouble, thanks to the fact that there are only familiar options involved and no prerequisite components.As far as the interface is concerned, Easy HR Text File Search opts for a large frame with a classical appearance. It's split into several panes for configuring and reviewing search settings, in addition to inspecting results.

Configure settings to locate docs

It's possible to specify the drive or directory to scan, include or exclude subfolders, and use wildcards when defining partial search strings to match.Once all TXT documents from the specified location have been indexed by the tool, you can review them and select the ones you're interested in, to set up one or two search string criteria. Case sensitive mode and partial matches can be allowed or denied.After the program finds doc matches, you can view them in the last pane of the main window, find out the date of creation and last modification along with the file size, as well as double-click any entry to open the document in the default text editor.

Evaluation and conclusion

We haven't experienced any stability issues in our tests, since the app didn't hang, crash or indicate errors. It left a small footprint on system resources consumption.Although it hasn't received updates for a long time, it worked smoothly on newer Windows versions in our tests. Thanks to its intuitive and advanced options, Easy HR Text File Search should meet the requirements of many users. It's freeware.