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Snowbird is a fast, light weight search utility for Windows

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Snowbird is a file search utility for Windows that's much faster than the search tools built into Windows XP. But it's also much lighter weight than programs like Google Desktop and Windows Search 4.0 which index every file on your hard drive and save the data in huge index files to speed up future searches. As a result, Snowbird isn't as fast as some search tools, but it takes up less than 1MB of disk space.

Snowbird doesn't need to be installed to your computer. You can store it on a USB flash drive and run it on any Windows computer.

The program has a handful of options, including the ability to show hidden files or display the classic Windows address bar. The Snowbird interface looks a lot like a normal Windows Explorer window, and you can sort search results by name, size, type, or date modified.

[via The Portable Freeware Collection]

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