Simple Search-Replace

Windows tries to come with a basic utility for every domain of activity. It's up to you or task requirements whether they suffice or you should start looking for alternatives. When it comes to searching utilities, a lot of time is spent indexing content, which can get frustrating at times, but applications like Simple Search-Replace promise to fetch results quickly and efficiently.

Although the application takes you through a setup process, the package is pretty light and the deployment method is an altered, self-extracting archive. In other words, you can extract it on a removable disk drive to be used on the go, since it doesn't need to make new entries in registries or modify existing ones.

Key Features:

• Intuitive requirement fields


• Configuration of search criteria


• Quickly fetch results


• Target specific file types


• Backup utility to prevent content loss

Specifications:

• Price: FREE


• Publisher: RJL Software


• File: /home/rsyncd/mnt/root/softpedia/Downloads/Windows Apps/System/S/Simple SearchReplace/search.exe


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The main window poses no accommodation problems, with intuitive requirement fields and a few other settings that are easily understood and handled. Two tabs give you the possibility to configure search criteria, after which you're automatically taken on the other, that displays results.

By default, the application looks in the drive where your OS is installed, but it can easily be changed through the open dialog, with an additional option to also include subdirectories.

Specific file types can be targeted by writing down the corresponding extension. Moreover, you can choose to just ignore some extensions, which keeps system files safe.

Conclusion:

Taking everything into consideration, Simple Search-Replace is a suitable alternative to common utilities of its kind. It sports a simple design, both in terms of visuals and variety of features put at your disposal, with no options to save custom configurations, but this simplicity is cleverly implemented so that accommodation is done in a jiffy and results properly fetched even faster.