ShellSearch

Is your Windows desktop extremely cluttered? Is your Start Menu or Internet Favorites menu bursting at the seams? Are you having trouble finding a shortcut to a program you installed a long time ago because you moved it or forgot where you put it? Help is here!

ShellSearch lets you quickly and easily find shortcuts, favorites, and other types of files and folders in Windows' most commonly used shell folders and optionally their subfolders simply by entering a few letters of the file name in its search text box and clicking a button.

Results are displayed in a list and can be launched or manipulated with a few mouse clicks or by dragging them from the ShellSearch window and dropping onto any application. The results can also be sorted in either ascending or descending order by name, file type, date, location, or url (if results contain internet shortcuts).

The program can search any combination of Windows shell locations at once including your Desktop, Start Menu Programs, Start Menu Documents, My Documents, Internet Favorites, Windows SendTo folder, Temporary Internet Files, and Application Data (where those little "Quick Launch" shortcuts on your taskbar are located). You may also specify unlimited alternate folders in which to search along with any shell folders you select by adding their names to the "Alternate Folders" list.

ShellSearch allows you to specify the type of files for which to be searched. You can optionally make searches case sensitive as well as specify whether you wish results to be shown with their file extensions or without. You can also specify whether or not you wish the program to search recursively in subfolders of the specified folders.