UBB.threads PHP Forum Software Community Forums Resources and Customizing Admin Zone What are others using for a search utility on a windows desktop

Guess so

My big friends is RegExBuddy.

Basicly a tool to help you create regular expressions. But it also has grep functionality in it.

You can search (and replace) using regular expressions.

http://www.regexbuddy.com

The author also made PowerGrep, a much more powerful grep tool, but it's a lot more expensive. RegExBuddy is real cheap, and a must have if you ever want to play with Regular Expressions.