File searching and Grep in windows

[Forboding Angel]

Basically as we all know, windows and filesearching is lol.

Best file searching utility for windows that I have found (Doesn't rely on indexing): http://www.ultrafilesearch.com/

If you need an excellent grep tool on windows, try out: https://code.google.com/p/dngrep/

Anyway, thought this might be useful to others and save some of you the time I spent looking for decent alternatives.

I'm sure there are other great programs out there for this, but these are the ones I found to be the best out of all the ones I've tried.

[KDR_11k]

IIRC MinGW comes with a Windows version of grep.

[Jools]

I use agent ransack. Works quite well. It has a lot of options. Built in search is idiotic in win7.

[Forboding Angel]

I saw agent ransack, but it looked ill equipped for win7 (mainly, the site for it is a mess).

Apparently that isn't the case?

[Jools]

It integrates with the shell so it works for any windows version. It has enough options to work for me, you can search for things in file and it supports perl type regular expression (although I've never understood why regex are so good, seem messy to me).