NetworkSleuth

NetworkSleuth is a software tool that can be used in order to look for specified items on the LAN or custom IP range, with support for multiple filters.

The installation process is a piece of cake, as it does not offer you to download any third-party products and it is over in a jiffy. After completing it, you come face to face with a pretty well-organized GUI, as it consists of a menu bar, several buttons and a few panes which display logs, search options, PCs in your network and results.

In addition to that, comprehensive Help contents are integrated, thus making sure that all user categories can find their way around it, including those with little or no previous experience with the IT world.

As stated above, you can easily search for items on your Local Area Network or within a specified IP range with pretty large number of filters. To be more accurate, you can easily look for a specified file name which should contain a user-defined body text. Moreover, it is possible to refine results using particular attributes, file extensions, size or date.

Results are going to be displayed in the main window along with information such as name, location, size, type, attributes and created and last modified date. You can view the total number of items found and the amount of time elapsed, as well as save results to a TXT, CSV or HTML file and copy, move or delete them after the search is complete.

Last but not least, the process can be paused, resumed and stopped at any point, while it is also possible to schedule tasks, map a network drive and import and export search options.

To conclude, NetworkSleuth is a pretty well-rounded and efficient piece of software, for those interested in finding and managing files in their local network. The interface is suitable to all users, the response time is good and there are sufficient options to keep you busy for quite a while. It does not burden the computer’s performance and we did not come by any errors, hangs or bugs in our tests.