Agent Ransack is a freeware utility for Microsoft Windows that can be used to search for files on a computer. It is made by Mythicsoft , and is a cut-down "lite" version of the commercial software FileLocator Pro .

It is especially useful for Windows XP when searching for files whose name and/or location is unknown, but are known to contain specified text. For example, you may be searching for a Microsoft Word document that you know contains the phrase "once upon a time", but you have no idea what you named the file or where it is located. Agent Ransack can be used to search for files containing the phrase in question.

The Find function in Windows 98 could be succesfully used to do this via the "Containing text" field. However, although Windows XP comes with a native Search function, the "A word or phrase in the file" field no longer seems to work. Thus even when searching through a plain text format document (such as .txt or .htm), Windows XP's Search function fails to return any relevant results.

Agent Ransack will perform this function very satisfactorily; it also integrates into the operating system shell for convenience.

External Links

• The official Agent Ransack download webpage
• The official FileLocator Pro homepage
• Mythicsoft official homepage