We usually carry most of their important files with us in a USB device so that they can access them wherever-anytime they want. However if you have too many files in your USB drive then you will be unable for you to search using the default windows search because the files have not been indexed yet.

Dropout – A Best Search Tool for your USB Drive

Dropout is an open source windows search tool that makes you a lot easy to search files inside your USB drive, Dropbox or any other directory. This is portable Windows search tool that requires no configuration or installation. You just need to download and extract the .zip, then copydropout.exe to the home directory of your USB drive, then it will let you search for the files in the same directory and other sub-folders.

On the first run of Dropout, It will create a index file inside a hidden sub directory and thus it won’t need to re-index when you insert that USB drive into another computer. The search index gets updated itself in an incremental manner when you run Dropout next after you add / update the files. You can now search for files with dropout according to name, extensions and even based on their content.

Download Dropout . [ Works on Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7.]