>i have literally thousands of .prg files that i've written over the last 15 years. most of them are one time programs that were used once and never used again. i'm looking for a way to search my hard drive to find particular files. Microsoft's built in Windows Search is a piece of crap and I don't even try that anymore. does anyone know if its possible to use one of the new desktop searches by Google, Yahoo or Microsoft to find .PRG files? Else are there any plugins available for PRG searches?

I live in Total Commander (http://ghisler.com/) - not only does it have powerful search (you can even search by binary strings, entering them as hex), it also displays any type of file regardless of extension, does FTP, plays MP3 (one by one, no playlist), does file and directory comparison and directory synchronization, does (un)zipping for you, you have a DOS command line at hand always - all in all, if you remember Norton Commander, that's what it would look if it was ever seriously ported to Windws. And its install still fits on one floppy, with help and all.

The only two cases I run Windows Explorer is the control panel and My Documents - the latter because I never got around to bookmark it in TCmd.