KillerFind v1.0.0

KillerFind 1.0 - the first stable release. One signed exe, no installer required, no telemetry, ever.

Download: grab KillerFind.exe below and run it. Install it from the footer badge if you want a Start Menu entry, or just keep it portable.

What's new since 0.1.1

Added

• Tabbed searches - every tab is a full independent search (folder, terms, filters, results). Drag to reorder; open tabs are kept across restarts by default, opt out from the quit prompt.
• Search within results - pipe one search's results into a new tab and drill deeper. Chain as far as you like.
• Filters - extension, date modified, and size rows, AND-ed with your search terms.
• Sort & refine - sort by name, location, size, or modified date; Ctrl+F filters the result list live.
• CSV export alongside the HTML report; the report gained a six-theme + accent switcher, sortable columns, and opens in the theme, accent, and language you exported from.
• Explorer-style folder picker - quick places, list / icons / details views, sortable columns, remembers its size and placement.
• Installer - per-user install with PORTABLE badge, plus /silent (machine-wide, for winget/RMM) and /uninstall.
• Keyboard shortcuts - Ctrl+T/W/Tab/1-9 for tabs, Ctrl+N adds a term, Ctrl+Shift+N a filter, Ctrl+O picks the folder, F1 shows the patterns + shortcuts card.
• Smart quit - Esc closes popups, stops a running search, then offers to quit; closing the window asks once, with "close my open tabs" and "remember my choice" checkboxes so it never asks again unless you want it to.
• Pattern cheat sheet; plain-text patterns just work (log matches *log*).
• 8 languages - en, es, de, fr, tr, zh-CN, zh-TW, bn, switchable live, and every status line re-renders when you switch.

Changed

• Multicore engine - the scan parallelizes across every CPU core with precompiled patterns; the window stays responsive mid-search.
• Full reskin to the shared KillerUI "Grunge" theme: six themes with live accent colors, film grain, custom chrome, real file icons, themed dialogs, and a window frame border that follows the theme on Windows 11.
• Searching with no folder selected opens the folder picker instead of an error.

Fixed

• Name terms without wildcards now match as contains instead of silently matching nothing.

Verify

SHA256 (KillerFind.exe)
5933025539C56EF1B8D5382F2BA382182B96484FACD0F625AEB938A61A3617DA

Signed with a Certum code signing certificate. SHA256SUMS.txt covers all release assets.

Full changelog: CHANGELOG.md · Website: killerfind.net · Part of killertools.net

KillerFind v0.1.1

Code signed with Certum certificate.

KillerFind v0.1.0

Initial release. Requires Windows 10/11 x64 and .NET Framework 4.8 (already included in Windows 10 1903+ and Windows 11).

Features

• Filename search with wildcard patterns (.log, report_.xlsx, etc.)
• Content search: streams through files line by line without loading them into RAM
• Multiple search terms in a single pass, each independently tracked
• Include/exclude filters with semicolon-separated patterns
• Case sensitive toggle
• Click any result to reveal it in Explorer, right-click to open directly
• HTML export of results
• No installer required