LAN Search Pro Online Manual

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General information

LAN Search Pro is a powerful utility for fast file searching across your LAN. You can search for specific file names or for specific file types (e.g. all MP3 files).

LAN Search Pro provides a lightning fast search engine and includes the ability to search hidden network resources, restricted access resources, IP subnets, LAN FTP servers and much more. It comes with a built-in password manager to store your network logins for resources with restricted access. Besides the file searching capabilities, LAN Search Pro offers features that allow you to perform actions on the found items - copy, move, rename etc. Additional features include result sorting, filtering, export, search within results, minimize to tray, and more.

Search according to the specified criteria, search filters.
Ability to search the hidden resources, IP subnetworks, LAN FTP servers.
Ability to search the resources with restricted access (the ones you need a login and password to access).
Ability to ignore some computers (e.g. slow servers) when performing the search. You can also search for specific servers only.
Ability to search specific network folders and much more.
Save, load, sort, navigate, and perform any other actions on the search results.
Fast multithreaded search engine.
Support of large amounts of data - the list can now contain up to 2,000,000 files!

8.0 Pro	May 07, 2008	Completely reworked core to ensure stability. Redesigned user interface. A number of new and updated features.
7.0 Pro	September 22, 2006	Better look, reviewed core, minor improvements
7.0 Pro	September 6, 2004	Fully redesigned text search engine. Now it supports ANSI, Unicode and Utf-8 encoding.
6.0 Pro	August 1, 2004	A few internal optimizations and fixes. The version number was not changed.
6.0 Pro	January 16, 2004	A new feature. You can also search on anonymous LAN FTP servers.
5.01 Pro	October 10, 2003	Command line support. Some automation command line switches are added.
5.0 Pro	May 21, 2003	The search log window The working threads window Fully rewritten engine now is more stable and fast Automatically detects hidden resources in a LAN The new passwords manager
4.2 Pro	August 19, 2003	Export to XML,CSV and HTML formats New XP-style interface
4.01 Pro	June 17, 2003	Speed of search in IP-range mode is increased Some small bugs fixed
4.0 Pro	April 1, 2003	LAN Search Pro is an advanced version of our LAN Search product. It has much more powerful search capabilities than its predecessor. Faster data processing (loading, saving, sorting) Support of large amounts of data - the list can now contain up to 2,000,000 files! The most essential advantage - the multithreaded search. LAN Search Pro can simultaneously search several machines in your network. This feature provides the 5-10 times faster search! Now you can find all required files (e.g. all MP3s) in your LAN within just several minutes!
4.0	December 18, 2001	Background file operations (Copy & Move) New sorting features New smart algorithm in the "Only these servers" mode
3.0	November 1, 2001	Now LAN Search supports Windows XP
2.4	October 16, 2001	Added batch processing of found files Fixed the bug with main window resizing The next version of LAN Search will fully support Windows XP
2.31	August 25, 2001	Added ability to ignore some computers when performing the search.
2.3	July 1, 2001	Added ability to search the specific network folders. New interface. Single-user license is now only $27!
2.2	April 27, 2001	Added ability to search IP subnetworks. Increased the speed of search using multiple masks. Fixed several bugs of the previous version.
2.1	April 16, 2001	Added ability to search the hidden resources. Minor interface changes. New help file in CHM format with examples of the program use. Added ability to select a network area to be searched. New format of storing search results.
2.0	November 14, 2000	Fully rebuilt version 1.0. New engine, new interface. This version is shareware (time limit). This is the first published version.
1.0	June 10, 2000	This version was for internal use only, never published.