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When comparing PowerGREP vs Windows Grep, the Slant community recommends PowerGREP for most people. In the question“What are the best grep implementations for Windows?” PowerGREP is ranked 2nd while Windows Grep is ranked 9th.
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Pros
Pro Price is reasonable for such a powerful tool.
Pro Easy to use GUI
PowerGREP has a very easy to use GUI, with a great preview mode that allows you to be sure on what you are replacing.
Pro Accessible from the right-click menu
You can easily search inside folders by right clicking them.
Pro Powerful data collection features
Pro Supports ZIP files
Pro Search-and-replace support
Windows Grep has support for search-and-replace text. This is very helpful if you want to edit files en-masse.
Pro Good result overview with click-support to external editor
Cons
Con Paid
PowerGREP is not free and costs at least 119 EUROS for a single license.
Con Complicated to use GUI, not intuitive to use
Con Website does not seem to exist any more
Con Hasn't been updated in a while
Windows Grep hasn't had a new stable release in a while. The released version has Windows 7 listed as the latest version of Windows supported.