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Searchopia IE ™ New Features & Version History
All versions are fully functional. Only version 5.00 is free. Prior versions will no longer be supported.

Version 5.00 (released July 4, 2005) [download]

  1. Trial period restrictions have been removed. No registration needed; it's free to anyone.
  2. Source code for Searchopia and it's ActiveX controls is for sale.

Version 4.34 (released April 4, 2004) [download]

  1. Added a Properties option to the File menu to display a File Properties dialog.

Version 4.33 (released March 16, 2004) [download]

  1. The Save Properties Prompt no longer appears when viewing a Microsoft Word document (.doc).

Version 4.32 (released December 12, 2003) [download]

  1. Added an option to copy file names to the clipboard without the folder path.
  2. The Launch button which is used to run a file's associated application is now always enabled.

Version 4.31 (released November 12, 2003) [download]

  1. Can now highlight all found terms using any font color or attribute you choose.
  2. Can automatically highlight all found terms inside Microsoft Word when it is run from Searchopia.

Version 4.30 (released November 3, 2003) [download]

  1. Can now display Microsoft Word documents with proper formatting and fonts if Word application installed.
  2. Eliminated some annoying message boxes that were unnecessary.

Version 4.23 (released August 24, 2003) [download]

  1. The text that was found is now correctly highlighted on Windows 2000 and XP.
  2. Faster viewing of really large files.
  3. Fixed the "Proximity And" search so that it properly narrows the search to the specified range.
  4. Fixed the inability to resize the application when using some older versions of Internet Explorer.
  5. Can now Move files from Searchopia using the mouse to drag-n-drop.
  6. Saves your changes to the list of file types, dates and display font when made, not when exiting the application.
  7. Eliminated Run-Time Error that occurred when trying to search for files by their Dates and Office XP installed.

Version 4.12 (released April 3, 2002)

  1. The Files and Folders tabs in the Search Criteria dialog box are always enabled. You no longer have to select Folders under Where To Search to enable them.
  2. Added an option to search a Specific Day.
  3. Added a monthly calendar to input a date.

Version 4.00 (released November 27, 2001)

  1. Faster searching. The search algorithm has been rewritten in Visual C instead of Visual Basic.
  2. Can now edit and save changes to standard text.
  3. Can now constrain searches by file size.
  4. Improved user-interface that replaces several dialog boxes with a tabbed-dialog box.
  5. Now supports the mouse scroll-wheel and smooth text scrolling.
  6. Searchopia's built-in browser is now used to display the following file types: htm, html, jpe, xml, asp, cgi, pl, php, php3, jsp, gsp, shtml, phtml, cfm, epl, odt, swf, ico and mvp. The user can add or remove file types from this list.
  7. Added an option to disable the Instant Popup Menus that appear after selecting text with the mouse.
  8. Can now drag-n-drop folders into the list of favorite search folders. Pressing the Ctrl key while dropping will search subfolders.
  9. Pressing the Ctrl key while dropping files into Searchopia's list of found files will now add those files to the list.
  10. Added 10 more user-defined file types for a total of 21.
  11. Can now exclude selected file types from being searched.
  12. Eliminated Run-Time Error that occurred when a large amount of text was Pasted into the Terms to search.
  13. Eliminated Run-Time Error that occurred using Verify to remove favorite folders that no longer existed.

Version 3.00 (released December 6, 2000) [download]

  1. Can now view HTML documents and graphic files like JPG and GIF.
  2. Can now remember all the folders that you like to search and has the ability to search multiple folders from the list of favorites, not just subfolders.
  3. Can now save the lists of found file names to disk and open them later to continue searching.
  4. Can now restore more than just one list of previously found file names.
  5. Can now search just the File Names without the File Contents.
  6. New Forward and Back buttons to browse the list of files found.
  7. Added the boolean NOT logical operator.
  8. Can now launch Word documents without reloading the Word application each time.
  9. Can now search Hidden and System files.

Searchopia 32 Version 2.41 (released May 31, 2000) [download]

  1. Eliminated the Run-Time Error that occurred while a search was in progress and the mouse pointer was moved over an empty list of found file names.
  2. Added an option to Launch applications using a data file's short file name. This is for older applications that don't support long file names.
  3. The Find On Launch feature can now pass numeric search characters to an application.
  4. Netscape's Browser can now display Searchopia's Help files.
  5. The shortcut Ctrl+R will Restore List of previously found files.
  6. Append Text now separates the current clipboard text from the appended text with a carriage return and line feed.

Searchopia 32 Version 2.3 (released March 31, 2000)

  1. The ability to turn off Whole Word searches globally, so that quotes are no longer required to search for partial words.
  2. A Restore List function so that the user can go back and repeatedly search a given list of files with a new search criteria each time.
  3. The ability to drag-n-drop a list of files into Searchopia.
  4. The ability to copy files from Searchopia using drag-n-drop.
  5. The ability to vertically resize the box containing the list of file names.
  6. Help files in HTML format.
  7. A Font dialog box that now displays ALL fonts correctly.
  8. The ability to Find On Launch with MS Internet Explorer and MS Word.
  9. The ability to search for a file's name in addition to its contents.
  10. A sequence of numbers can now be searched for as a Whole Word.
  11. Search terms are now saved in a drop-down list box so that you can quickly go back and reuse them.
  12. Help files with the HLP extension can now be Launched from Searchopia.
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