Win Indexer (Indexer Software, freeware)

I am an information addict. Among the many gigabytes of data I handle, daily, there are websites, which I grab, from the Internet, of course. Sometimes, the problem is not having the information, but knowing that I have it...

My hard disks are, to a certain extent, a mystery to me, and I don't have the time to go manually index all their data. So, I decided to code a very simple software that can automatically search, index and generate HTML links to all the files I decide. You can download this software, which I called "Win_Indexer" (WI).

For example, for websites, I am mostly interested in indexing the INDEX.HTM files, which usually webmasters create as a starting point to their web presences. But I could also want to index DEFAULT.HTM files, or all the INDEX.* files, or all the JPG pictures (*.JPG), or all the MP3 (*.MP3), and so on... WI allows just that.

WI is terribly simple to use: there are edit fields for the starting point of your search (for example "d:\mp3_from_the_net"), for the file type you are wanting to index (for example "*.mp3"), and for the HTML file to be created. This HTML file will consist of hyperlinks to all the matches found, if any. You can use wildcards for the file type (as in "my_*.*"), but you can only search one file type at a time - this limitation will disappear in the next version, which will happen whenever I want. Notice that the current version of WI was written in a couple of hours, at the exact moment I needed this kind of simple tool :).

One word of warning: in some scenarios, WI can seem slow (but it is fast!). It all depends on the amount of files being searched. If you a have a PC like my own, then some 5 minutes are required for each 9 GB partition, consisting of tens of thousand of small files... In this scenario, WI might seem to have stopped responding, but it didn't! Just wait.

In most cases, a matter of few seconds will suffice, for WI to complete its indexing.

I was to write a new C tutorial, this time about how to code "Win_Indexer", but because I was in a hurry, I didn't write this program in ANSI C. I used C++ and MFC classes, so this is why I won't be publishing its tutorial right now.

Enjoy "Win_Indexer". It only weights 28 KB (that is no typing mistake) and it really is useful and trivial to operate. If you have any indexing needs, you'll agree it comes very handy! This software is 100% free. Use it and abuse it. If you do like it, or have any suggestions for the next release, just let me know.

Click here to download the latest public version (might not correspond to the one pictured).