Advanced Find and Replace 6.4

I remember that back in the day, a friend of mine got himself a new computer. I can’t remember the exact configuration, but there is one thing I remember clearly – the hard drive was of 20GB. I remember it because at the time it was huge. Nowadays, a 20GB hard drive is considered incredibly small; proper hard drives nowadays have hundreds of GB. Even on a low spec notebook you get a 250GB hard drive.

On such hard drives you can store a lot of data – documents, movies, music, images, applications and so on. A small problem may arise when you store a lot of data on a huge hard drive: you can end up losing track of all your files. You could end up searching a long, long time for a file that you need.

Luckily enough there are specialized software applications out there that will help you easily and rapidly find the file you are looking for. Such an application is the Abacre-developed Advanced Find and Replace. By using Advanced Find and Replace you will be able to locate a file, any file, in seconds. That’s not all you can do with this application. Advanced Find and Replace, as the name so adequately points out, is a search AND find utility.

Advanced File and Replace is a tool that will aid programmers and webmasters in particular. Its functionality will help them get things done faster. To better put things in perspective, here is the sort of functionality you can expect to get from Advanced Find and Replace:
- Use smart queries when you search for files.
- Replace simple or multiline text in several files at the same time.
- Search and replace text in Microsoft Office Word, Excel and PowerPoint files.
- Search and replace text in TXT, ASP, PHP, JSP, and CFM files.
- Preview the text that Advanced Find and Replace finds
- Batch replace operation
- Replace text from the file name (making this a file renaming utility)
- Use Perl-style regular expressions for replacements of any complexity.
- Command line parameters supported

Before you go get Advanced Find and Replace, take a look at these technical details:
Download – the download weighs in at some 1.3MB.
Installation – at the time of writing this, Advanced Find and Replace provides support for Windows 9x, NT, 2000, Me, XP, 2003, Vista, and Windows 7.
Limitations – you can use Advanced Find and Replace free of charge only during a trial period of 21 days.

Pros

• Lightweight download
• Easily locate files
• Search and replace text in TXT, ASP, PHP, JSP, CFM, Word, Excel and PowerPoint files.
• Rename files
• Works with Windows 7

Cons

• Free to try (21-day trial)
• Nag screen

About Abacre
The name Abacre is a combination of two words: abacus + acre. Abacre has selected this word combination to show the fact that it comes up with “software systems that represent units (acres) of information system.” Abacre comes up with intelligent data processing applications for business and small useful utilities for Windows. All applications are thoroughly tested to ensure they are top quality, to ensure they are user friendly, and to ensure they do not contain viruses.

Additional details on software developer Abacre and its products are available here.

Advanced Find and Replace has been reviewed by George Norman on 07 Sep 2010. Based on the user interface, features and complexity, Findmysoft has rated Advanced Find and Replace 4 out of 5 stars, naming it Excellent