What’s this?
It’s a best search companion for who those looking for exploring or searching windows files and directories. Has advanced power to search the windows directories and files with powerful optimized search engine. It Image 1 shows the basic structure of the application.
How to use?
Parent directory ex – D:\HugeFolderToSearch need to give as parent directory in app and press Search button.
Once search is started – it loads all files into the grid where as shown in Image 1.
Filtering the directories now easy – just use the second text box to filter – like Folder Name.
Along with we have extra feature called search filters as drop down list – where you can select the type of filter like equals, contains etc.
If you select equals it shows search results where your criteria matches.
If you select Contains as filter option – it will shows search results where your criteria matches.
Similarly for not equals, starts with and ends with.After filtering the data – if you double click a row in grid then it open the directory path. Which as shown in the image 2.
Apart from that – app has a cool feature where use can select path filter row by just pressing the right click on the each row and you will populate with several options. Which are explained as mentioned below.
Copy location – if you select this as an option from the menu then it copies the selected row location in clip board. If you just press Control key + V then you will the same.
Copy Text – – if you select this as an option from the menu then it copies the text of the row selected like folder name then it copies the selected row location in clip board. If you just press Control key + V then you will the same.
Open Location – if you select this as an option from the menu then it opens the location of file instead of opening the file.It has some other features which are explained in details in feature section of this documents. Overall this app providers lot of flexibility where user can have interactions.
As this a application launched with basic working version – in case if you find the any issues like crashes or improper behavior you can always include your comments by going to portal – PortalName.com. To use this portal you should create an account and your feedbacks are very precious for improving our products – Please do share your feedback by taking couple of minutes.
Image 1– Overview of RAWS.
Image – 2: Usage of RAWE
Features
Has multiple options where users will fall into love while using the RAWS application. Basic functionality starts to load a complete directory and its files in to grid. From the grid use can easily filter with search options like equals, contains etc.
- Saving caching/Loading cache:
It’s best feature where user can save the loading grid data for given directory and can reload into again. Which intern saves lot of times and makes him to feel comfort to work.
Image 3: Save or Load cache.
Search a key work with extension:
Here user can search all files with extensions with very quick and fast search capacity.
Open at start up ::
This feature enables users to launch app at windows start up and he can disable by deselecting the checkbox.
Software requirement:
- Should have .NET framework 4.0.
- Operating system should be windows – windows XP or above.
- RAM should be minimum 512MB