QSearchFolders   
http://www.olfolders.de

QSearchFolders creates search folders and manage existing search folders in all versions of MS Outlook and in each place in an Outlook tree. It makes the automatic scanning of Outlook folder such as email and contacts, tasks, calendars possible independently of where they are put down. Search Folders are a way to gather email messages and other Microsoft Outlook items into a folder based on your search criteria. For example, you want to see all email messages that you have not yet read. The messages can be viewed from but are not stored in Search Folders. Search Folders are virtual folders that contain views of messages that might be in the Inbox and other folders you have created. Search Folders find the messages or data you're looking for, based on their content or some other significant attribute (such as whom they're from or whether you want to follow up). Search Folders are a quick and convenient way to look at collections of e-mail messages based on their content, not their locations. One of the new features of Outlook 2003 are search folders, once created the for example show all your unread messages in all folders or messages matching any criteria. Search folders automatically search the specified folders in the background and update themselves if the data changes. Search folders are a part of MAPI, the data base engine on which Outlook is based and are part of the definition since the first version of MAPI which was introduced about 1995. In other words, all versions of Outlook are able to display search folders, missing is only a user interface which allows creating them. In fact, all versions of Outlook are using search folders in the extended search dialog. The extended search creates a search folder in the non-visible part of the Outlook Folder list and opens a window displaying this folder. QSearchFolders works also with any personal folders files in an Exchange Server 2000 & 2003 environment and with OLfolders for Microsoft Outlook networks.

xfriend   
http://www.xdot.de

xfriend, the local search engine for your PC xfriend is your search engine for desktop searches at no charge. xfriend's search functionality includes full text search and meta data search. Search results will be displayed within seconds and can be categorized by file type, date, size etc. Additionally, xfriend searches the internet, product catalogues, internet news (RSS-feeds), emails and other search services. xfriend offers a P2P-like search in external shared folders of other xfriend users. Therefore, xfriend enables you to set up a client-server environment easily. At the moment xfriend supports more than 50 file types and their meta-information. For example, xfriend indexes jpeg, mp3, doc, xls, pdf, txt and other formats. xfriend is made on pure Java. It runs on any popular operating system such as Windows or Linux. You just need your webbrowser. Immediately after installation xfriend will be available as a web-service on your computer.

MDE InfoHandler   
http://www.mdesoft.com

MDE InfoHandler is a multipurpose information manager for your PC and Pocket PC that you can use to organize notes, documents, web links, e-mail and news messages, dates, programs, and more, using a uniform and sophisticated interface. It features a very powerful categorization method including hierarchical organization of categories, master-slave relationships, text and number type categories, and efficient automatic categorization based on analyzing the text of an info item (InfoItem) or of linked documents. Another special features are two universal time stamps which you can set freely and use for sorting or filtering the item list. The InfoItems are stored in special databases called InfoBases and you can have several different windows for the same InfoBase simultaneously open side by side. You can view the InfoItems either as a table sorted by three of its columns or as a set of trees formed by hierarchically structured category groups - possibly constrained by set-up filters for categories or time. Many kinds of drag & drop include dragging web links and documents from browsers, emails from MS Outlook (Express), creating InfoItems as a result. You can also drag InfoItems between InfoBases copying or moving them. Active links to external objects include those to web pages and documents as well as between InfoItems in the same or in different InfoBases. The text of an InfoItem can be richly formatted and you can store paragraph and/or character formats for later re-application - manually or automatically using a find-replace dialog. Other features include several methods for text search, alarms bound to InfoItems, flexible print options, customizable toolbars, various data export and import including with the Pocket PC companion, and the InfoShooter which lets you create new InfoItems on the fly. InfoHandler can be of help if you are using your PC on a daily basis to assist you with your professional or hobbyist requirements to master a flood of information.

Text Filterer   
http://www.edwardsoft.com

Text Filterer is an advanced full text search tool for Windows. It instantly searches for single words, partial words, Boolean word combinations, or exact phrases within hierarchically organized collections of documents. Classic Explorer-like interface allows you to easily switch between found documents viewing their contents in the preview pane, and navigate through the found entries in the text forward and back. Search results can be additionally narrowed by conditions imposed on document name, location, date/time, size, title, author, subject, etc. You create search queries as persistent filters stored with a collection, so you can reuse them in different work sessions. Switching between predefined filters gives you an effective way to explore the contents of a collection. Besides plain text files, Text Filterer searches in RTF, XLS, HTML, PDF and Unicode files, and uses MS Word (if installed) while indexing DOC and other MS Word supported files. With Excel files, Text Filterer provides capability to instantly search multiple files for data by Excel columns and rows presenting search results in one view. Text Filterer shows search results in the list view, with documents (or their parts called snippets) as rows, and their attributes as columns much like Windows Explorer does. For a collection of documents containing a series of text snippets, similar across the collection, you can make the snippets units of your searches instead of entire documents. For a collection of documents having distinguishable pieces of data, similar across the collection, you can create user-defined data fields to make Text Filterer selectively search inside those pieces of data. Column data of a search result can be saved to a tab-delimited text file for later processing with a spreadsheet or database application. Found documents can be saved to a chosen folder with the option to convert them into plain-text copies. Text Filterer has built-in support for working with multilingual texts.

Effective File Search   
http://www.sowsoft.com

Effective File Search (EFS) is a powerful but easy to use search tool. Search any files on your computer or local network. Search in folders or results. Support of all popular file formats (MS Office files, PDF, RTF, HTML and many other text and binary files). Search filters include date and size, containing text or hexadecimal codes. You may use Boolean operators to perform multiple keyword searches. All results and parameters can be saved to file. Other features include export, Windows Explorer functionality (icons, context menus, drag and drop) and file operations (copy, rename, delete etc.). You can automate many search and file management tasks and save a lot of time.