Superior Search   
http://www.neuropower.com

Superior Search is a PC-based search application working in the Windows environment, allowing a full-text search in all known files formats, including archived files (even password protected), PDF-files, MS Office-files and others. The latest version of Superior Search allows searches in e-mail data bases of Outlook and Outlook Express, Unix mail-boxes and The Bat! (including all email attachments), can be updated online via the internet, and incorporates some other improvements. As a result of this, Superior Search 2004 dramatically surpasses the standard search capabilities of Windows, providing the user with a powerful tool to manage his/her PC more efficiently. - Find what you're looking for in spite of wrong inputs: Fuzzy logic helps you find files even if you misspell words or link them wrong. - Superior Search is standard for the Office search. Take advantage of our fantastic search tools on your PC or LAN and in all common texts and Office documents (including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, RTF, HTML, PDF, PS, etc.). - Content Security. It also searches in password-protected archives. You can also take advantage of this function by keying in the password. - Search in compressed files. Find your documents and files even if they are archived. Superior Search supports most of the archive's types used on PC (such as ZIP, RAR, ARJ, ACE, GZIP, TAR, etc.) so you don't have to unpack them manually to process searching. - Searches in emails (attachments). Now you can find texts and documents in e-mails. Take advantage of this tool for searching in mail bodies and attached documents, even if they are archived. Superior Search supports Outlook, Outlook Express, UNIX Mailbox and The Bat!. -Fast decisions. Take advantage of the preview window so you don't need to open the document in host application to see if you have found the right document.

Runner   
http://www.webxpace.net

Execute everything, from programs, to text files, to multimedia, in fact everything that has a registered extension, directly from your desktop. It will open a custom windows Open Dialog, from where you can chose the file to run, and then close itself. Has a - somewhat limited - filter possibility, that can easily be extend with more file types, if you want..

SayPad   
http://InspiredCode.net

SayPad, the freeware talking text editor can read you a good book or help you write one, using SAPI 5.1 Text To Speech (included). It can convert Text to MP3 for a whole book in one run, splitting off chapters into well named MP3 files. You can fit huge files into it like the whole Bible for instance, (In fact it has a filter you can turn on that skips over verse numbers to let you hear it like a story.) Say Pad is a keyboard driven talking text editor. Most of the controls are similar to any notepad. There are minor differences. It has some audio commands, such as hear block, and line read, and can read to you like a story. It lets you set the start and end of the selection block but if you move your position while the shift key is down, it will make the new block to be what you have just painted. I know of no upper limit to how much text it can hold. You can control how it automatically handles spacing when you cut and paste by using the auto spacing feature of the menu. If you want to hear something spelled out, turn on spelling. It can burn MP3 file sets or Wave file sets. All user dialog is spoken.

Rename From List   
http://www.softcns.com

Import file lists from plain text source files and rename multiple files. Imported file names are automatically filtered for illegal characters and path information. Side by side comparision available before renaming starts. You can edit new file name entries and change extensions before starting the renaming operation. Filter files by size, date and pattern and sort by name, date or size. Support now added for delimited plain text file lists of old and new file names.

File Viewer   
http://www.Accessoryware.com

File Viewer is an multi purpose Disk/File Management Program with functions for finding, viewing, printing, emailing, and organizing Pictures, Images, Text, Documents, Database, and Spread Sheet Files. Multimedia Files, including MP3, AVI, MPG, MOV, WMF, WMA, MID, RMI, and WAV, are easily located, played and Organized using File Viewer. Separate Play Lists are available for Music and Video Files. Picture editing as Flip, Rotate, Resize, Crop, Brightness, Color, and Hue. Apply editing to entire picture or region of picture. Organize Files over a local area network in database by type and search word with descriptions and comments for each File. Find and Unzip Zip files. Package files in Zip file to send by E-Mail over the internet. Great File Utilites include copy, delete, rename, move. Files can be managed individually or many files selected for batch disk management. Batch Copy Files to RW CD Rom, Zip, or another computer on the network. View and Print Database files by index. View Pictures and multimedia files on the internet. Organize your entire disk by catagories such as Pictures, Documents, Text, Database, Spread Sheets, etc. Create your own file groups adding descriptions, search words, and comments for each file. Organize accessible Files over the local area network. View Files in the Organizer by File Size and Date Modified. Complete Help Text with quick tips, and set colors for File Viewer Windows and Window Components. FTP Client support. Multiple Windows Explorer-like windows. Run Multiple Catalogs for disks, devices, folders selecting files by file type or combinations of file types.