Where's Waldo?

Finding stuff is a hassle, particularly within ever-expanding data stores. Outlook search improved dramatically after Microsoft integrated the Lookout engine into Office 2007, and is now actually useful. For unstructured data I have tried a variety of free local search tools, but all of the fast ones involve indexing via hash tables or trusting that some third party won't actually look at any of my data.

The same guys that created SyncBackSE also offer an outstanding little search tool called "FindOnClick." I have no idea how they got this thing to run so fast. Although there is no index, searches complete in seconds, even over network shares. The search below traversed ~11,000 folders in < 4 seconds. This is now an indispensable part of my personal computing toolkit.

FindOnClick is not free, but I think offers great value. Check it out.
Unless, of course, you enjoy experiencing Where's Waldo? at the office.