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By: FileSeek: search file names or contents with powerful, regular expressions enabled filtering « Useful Stuff

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:13:28 +0000

[...] different from other desktop search apps previously mentioned on Freewaregenius such as Everything, DKFinder, and Locate32) in two major ways; (1) it will perform searches on demand rather than pre-index your [...]

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By: SimplyJhun

SimplyJhun — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 05:50:51 +0000

Dk Finder and Locate32 has amazing search ability… i like DK Finder and Locate32, i’ve been using Them. Dk Finder Much more faster than Locate32, but the fact! DK Finder has no or you Can’t Drug and drop into the other application or an folder and doesn’t have an icon when you search an file such as… example mp3, you can’t specify more faster which is the data you’d like to search or to find. Locate32 have that characteristic what i say.
Mr. dkeller can i make some request? once you make a new version of DK finder can you just a drag and drop into other file and can you show up the icon every file it search?
Thank for this software and i’m waiting to the new version that you will release soon!

By: “Everything”: small, lightning fast desktop search program for NTFS drives - review & download link | freewaregenius.com

Sat, 01 Nov 2008 22:27:35 +0000

[...] [Thanks go to reader Idodialog for letting me know about this program in the comments section of my DK Finder review]. [...]

By: idodialog

idodialog — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:00:08 +0000

And the winner is ….
Everything (http://www.voidtools.com/)
Tiny, simple, tiny memory usage, fast!
I’m a long long time user of Locate and I’ve tried DK but really for everyday use Everything requires no admin and until I use it I don’t know it’s there. Somehow it is ready to find things on external hard drives pretty well as soon as I turn them on.
Its everything I wanted Locate to be.

By: RUSHfan

RUSHfan — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 07:38:06 +0000

Cant sort results by type?

Confirmation just to rescan?

No Ctrl + ALt + + resizeing?

Thanks for the effort but i feel sorry for anyone that uses this before they try Locate or AgentRansack. Ya cant build a better mouse trap i guess.

By: DK Finder Does Lightning Fast Desktop Search « Unleash your inner geek

DK Finder Does Lightning Fast Desktop Search « Unleash your inner geek — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:20:21 +0000

[...] “Windows only: Free utility DK Finder is a resource-light desktop search application that indexes your hard drive for fast searching. Obviously there are plenty of desktop search applications out there, most notably Google Desktop, but DK Finder sets itself apart with a tiny footprint (around 3MB running, 1MB in the system tray), advanced filtering options, and file operations (like batch copying and moving files). Like any desktop search app, the initial index will take some time. Once DK Finder finishes indexing your drive, it provides nearly instantaneous results. DK Finder is a free download for Windows only.” DK Finder [via FreewareGenius] [...]

By: DK Finder Does Lightning Fast Desktop Search « Unleash your inner geek

DK Finder Does Lightning Fast Desktop Search « Unleash your inner geek — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:20:21 +0000

By: Life Clerks » DK Finder Does Lightning Fast Desktop Search [Featured Windows Download]

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 15:22:00 +0000

[...] Windows only: Free utility DK Finder is a resource-light desktop search application that indexes your hard drive for fast searching. Obviously there are plenty of desktop search applications out there, most notably Google Desktop, but DK Finder sets itself apart with a tiny footprint (around 3MB running, 1MB in the system tray), advanced filtering options, and file operations (like batch copying and moving files). Like any desktop search app, the initial index will take some time. Once DK Finder finishes indexes your drive, it provides nearly instantaneous results. DK Finder is a free download for Windows only. DK Finder [via FreewareGenius] [...]

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windows vista keygen » DK Finder - file search utility — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 22:17:34 +0000

[...] me, so that’s high praise to me. Author is promising a new version from scratch by November, too. [link] [link] Posted by admin in Uncategorized 8 [...]

By: dkellner

dkellner — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:47:59 +0000

Thanks Abbas. Many of these are already on my todo list but I’m going to try my best for the rest.

By: abbas

abbas — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 21:10:25 +0000

i must admit that there is some good features

in this freeware and i use it beside iyf and

agentran, but adding these features will make

it better. i hope they wouldn’t seem very ideal

or optimistic.
1- standard windows context menu and open

folder option in right click menu.
2- an integrated viewer for text and media

files. enabling thumbnail view for pictures

will be a good idea. i suggest an internal

codec to view doc files too
3- it would be a good idea to enable standard

search alongside with index search. i mean to

add agentran capabilities to this freeware. it

would be better to add it in windows context

menu like agentran.

By: dkellner

dkellner — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 19:16:37 +0000

Samer: thank you, I’m going to finish DKF3 by the end of the year, probably sooner. Standard selection is a minimum, of course, but I have problems with usual controls since they are much slower than Finder itself. A list of 10.000 files takes them about 10-12 sec to display while the actual search is about 2s. These problems must either be solved or worked around somehow before I release DKF3. Anyway: of course I’ll let you know! And I hope you’ll like it much better than this one.

mmmnn: surprise, one of the key features of DKF3 will be a duplicate finder/manager. Generated file lists are ideal for doing such things. Just like directory size stats, and many more.

By: mmmnn

mmmnn — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 08:53:13 +0000

The one thing that will really make me install this software is: duplicate finder/remover.

Searching for files, explorer gets the job done for my needs.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 21:13:26 +0000

I have been using X1 and it works super fast also has a great preview pane.

By: Samer

Samer — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 21:10:07 +0000

@dkellner,
Let me know when the new version is finished and I will update this review and push it back to the top of the blog.

I really like DK Finder, more than Locate32. I do not think it is ‘ugly’, in fact just the opposite, no’r have I seen it to freeze.

I hope that you can implement some of the suggestions though such as as-you-type-results, a scheduled re-scan, and a more standardized file selection process, etc.

PS: thanks for creating this program and putting it out there for free!

By: dkellner

dkellner — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 19:30:06 +0000

Correct, I wasn’t able to manage the standard windows context menu. DKF 3 can do it.

But no, Finder doesn’t freeze. Not that I’m aware of. No one ever reported such thing and it never happened on any of my computers. How did you do that?

By: abbas

abbas — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 07:30:14 +0000

index your files (iyf) is better. i installed both of them,
1- DK finder has many bugs when you want to use some of its options it stops to work and to close it you must press alt+ctrl+del
2- iyf has more usefull features like opening windows standard context menu, open folder (DK has alt+E here but it is not user friendly), playin most of the files inside iyf and many others
please write an article about iyf and change the your idea of pick programs

By: dkellner

dkellner — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:23:22 +0000

Hi, I’m the author of DK Finder and I’m happy to see this article. HOWEVER: yes, there are problems with Finder and this is why I’m working on a new version. You’ll love it, I promise.

I’ve seen a question here, about multi-selecting files: of course it can be done, use Ins (like Commander:) or see right-click for more selecting options. Much more convenient than Ctrl+Clicking.

I’m not trying to be “better” than Locate32 or Copernic, or even Microsoft Things. They can do stuff that I can’t and vice versa. I’m trying to provide a screwdriver-like tool which won’t jump into your hand and figure out what you’re probably planning to do – it just does the job when you decide to use it.

By: Fred Thompson

Fred Thompson — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:35:59 +0000

Well…don’t forget what file indexing really does, it moves the processing time away from the search app (wrt file attributes) and spreads it into the OS. Personally, I hate it. If you do anything which involves lots of temporary files, indexing is a pain in the butt. IMNSHO, it’s really best for server-type applications like remote databases. Indexing every file change drags the system down and honks me off. Sure, DK Finder and other searches based on existing indexes are very fast but that’s only part of the story.