ASFileFinder excels at the frequent task of searching for a file by its name.  It is just over 75KB in size, and runs as a standalone executable -- no DLLs, not even an installation routine.  When you run it, it asks you to choose a drive, and then does a quick survey of all the files on that drive.  The process takes no more than a few seconds, and then it is ready to search. 

You then start to type in letters, and it displays the file names which match the entry.  If you are looking for "The Year of Living Dangerously", type in "liv" and only those file names containing that string are displayed.  (If you have used PowerMarks, you know the power of this simple search technique.)  Type in a second entry to narrow it further.  Type "liv", then a space, then "dan" and it is likely that only the one desired file will display. Double-click on the file name to open it. 

Very simple, and much faster than Windows' search tool, particularly if you need to do several different searches of a single drive one after the other.

11:02:08 PM    

Tom Mighell posted:

A Brighter Outlook for Spam Sufferers -- Jeff Beard has a nice post outlining some of the new features available in the soon-to-be-released Outlook 2003. One thing that Jeff and I both are looking forward to is the enhanced spam filter. Read more about it in David Pogue's Microsoft Office 2003 Reviewed. While you're at it, head over to the New York Times E-mail subscription page and sign up for "Circuits," David's weekly newsletter. Definitely worth a read.

I tried to comment, but his commenting machine is broken, resulting in three copies of the following appearing at Tom's comment section:

Franco's First Law:
Any solution from Microsoft is more terrifying than the problem.

8:30:03 AM