Copernic Desktop Search 3
Desktop Search Solution


Find Your Files and Emails with the Power of a Search Engine Right on Your Desktop

Copernic Desktop Search Home allows individuals to instantly search their files, e-mails, and e-mail attachments stored anywhere on their PC's hard drive. The application executes subsecond searching of Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files, Acrobat PDFs, multimedia, etc.

Fast
Easily search your entire hard drive in less than a second to pinpoint the right file, email, music or picture.

Fresh
New and updated files and new emails are indexed the instant they arrive on your hard drive.

Ultra-Light
Utilizes CPU, memory, and disk space efficiently to ensure continued high levels of system performance.

Easy to Use
Simply type words into the deskbar, and CDS finds all relevant documents in an instant.

Rock Solid
Fault-tolerant technology ensures that your PC is searchable at all times.

Last Updated 15 December 2009
Win 98/ME/NT/2000/XP/7
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Google Desktop
Desktop search tool

Google Desktop gives you easy access to information on your computer and from the web.
It's a desktop search application that provides full text search over your email, files, music, photos, chats, Gmail, web pages that you've viewed, and more.
By making your computer searchable, Google Desktop puts your information easily within your reach and frees you from having to manually organize your files, emails and bookmarks. It makes searching your computer as easy as searching the web with Google.

Google Desktop doesn't just help you search your computer; it also helps you gather new information from the web Sidebar and Google Gadgets, which can be placed anywhere on your desktop to show you new email, weather, stock information, photos, personalized news, RSS/Atom feeds, and more.
Sidebar is personalized automatically, without any manual configuration required (though you can certainly make your own customizations if you want to or turn off automatic personalization).

Requires Windows Vista/XP/2000 SP3+

Last Updated 28 May 2010
Win 2000/XP/Vista/7
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Windows Search 4.0 Preview
Instantly find documents, e-mail, attachments, and more

In today's information-intensive workplace, finding just the right file when you need it can be challenging. Windows Search provides an easy and comprehensive solution for finding and organizing the content you care about, whether it's on your PC, in an e-mail message or attachment, on a remote file share, or on the Web. Key benefits of Windows Search include:

User Experience that Helps You Stay Productive: Windows Search has a familiar user interface for instantly finding files and e-mail messages located on your PC and connected resources-plus one-click access to move, delete, copy, burn, attach, or drag and drop files where you need them.

Enterprise Ready: Windows Search is easy to deploy and manage, with enterprise-class security that prevents unauthorized access to sensitive information. Robust Group Policy support gives IT professionals control over every aspect of search functionality-from the types of files to the locations that get indexed.

Rich and Flexible Development Platform: Windows Search is easily extensible for third-party developers and IT professionals to build upon, offering comprehensive APIs for developers to display user search query results in custom applications and tools using the .NET Framework or a Common Object Model (COM) interface.

Last Updated 15 December 2009
Win 2003/XP/Vista
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Find and Run Robot
Rapidly find programs and documents on your computer

Find and Run Robot is a program for keyboard maniacs - it helps you rapidly find programs or documents from within the depths of the start menu (or other directories).
One keypress launches the utility - then just start typing the first letters of the application you want to launch. As you type the best matches are shown - just hit the number to launch the associated program.

NOTABLE FEATURES
Fully customizable search paths (search your entire hard disk for files as well as apps)
Fast incremental searches, with memorized search history helps you find the files you need quickly.
Completely customizable heuristic scoring metrics - tune the program to search the way you think.
Add your own custom alias groups.
Low system overhead, doesn't mess with your registry.
Unobtrusive and stays out of your way in the system tray until you need it.
Win 98/2000/XP/Vista/7
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Windows Live Toolbar

Windows Live Toolbar (formerly MSN Search Toolbar) adds desktop search capabilities and enhanced browsing and security features to Windows.
It indexes your files and emails and allows you to quickly search for files by simply typing a keyword,.
The toolbar integrates with Internet Explorer, as well as your desktop, where it provides instant search results from the taskbar. The results include image thumbnails, and document previews and can be further filtered by document type (some document types such as PDF and Office require free add-ins).
Additional features (you can select which to install) include form filling, popup blocking, anti-phishing, address lookup (maps) and more.
Win 2000/XP/2003/Vista
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Agent Ransack
Code/text search tool

Agent Ransack is a very powerful and easy to use tool for finding files and information on your hard drive fast and efficiently. You can search for file names or text in files with support for Regular expressions.

When searching the contents of files Agent Ransack displays and highlights the actual text segments found in a separate window so you can quickly browse the results without having to open each file!

The program features several wizards that can help you if you are not familiar with the use of Regular Expressions. Agent Ransack integrates into the Windows Find menu, so it is readily available to be used instead of the common Windows search dialog.
The program also includes a very detailed help file.
Win 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista
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X1 Enterprise Client

X1 Enterprise Client is a desktop search engine that is free for personal use on your home computer. It automatically indexes files, email messages and contacts on your computer and returns instant results for your keyword searches. The results are organized in a tabbed interface, sorted by file type and provide a quick preview for most common file types including images, PDF files, Office files, ZIP files and many other formats. You can directly interact with the results by replying to emails, sending messages to contacts, opening files, playing music and also send any file as email attachment with the click of a button. The program allows you to customize drives and folders, as well as file types that should be included in the index, and the indexing can be performed in the background whenever your PC is no in use. X1 Enterprise Client is free for personal use, a commercial license with Enterprise level network support is also available.

Pros: Supports a wide range of document types and email items; smooth integration with your system; built-in preview for most common file types

Cons: none

Windows 2000/XP
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SearchInform Free

Full-text document search application. SeachInform combines phrasal search with the consideration of morphology and synonyms thesaurus with searching documents similar by content.

The application is designed for fast search of information on PC at large data levels. Fast indexing (6 GB/h).
Support of any text formats (txt, doc, rtf, pdf, htm, html) and various data sources.
Indexing information systems fields (Access, MS SQL, Oracle, any DBMS supporting SQL).
Searching documents similar by content is based on the SoftInform Search Technology and implemented by means of mathematical analysis of the document structure and the selection of similar words, word combination and text arrays.

Searching documents similar by content involves the whole plurality of words used in the document with the consideration of all word forms and synonyms.
The search can be pin-pointed with the help of ´important words´ that the application will take into account in the first place and do an additional analysis of documents similarity.

Last Updated 15 December 2009
Win NT/2000/XP
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Ask Jeeves Desktop Search

Ask Jeeves Desktop Search is an incredibly useful search tool that lets you search for files on your computer just as easily as you search for information on the Web. It's fast, easy to use, and can save you valuable time when looking for misplaced or hard-to-locate computer files or emails.

What does it do?
Once you start using Ask Jeeves Desktop Search, you'll wonder how you lived without it. Here are just some of the benefits:
Find practically anything on your computer in seconds
Never misplace a file again - you no longer need to spend time organising all your documents into endless folder categories and sub-categories.
Search for important Office files, pictures, emails, music and video files, and more.
Ask Jeeves Desktop Search lets you search your computer, email messages, or the entire internet - all from one place.

How does it work?
Ask Jeeves Desktop Search keeps track of where your files are stored on your hard drive so you don't have to.

Here's how it works:
Ask Jeeves Desktop Search begins by scanning your computer's hard disk for office files, pictures, emails, music and video files and more. Once it has indexed everything, it can locate individual files in seconds.
Open your Ask Jeeves Desktop Search program and enter a keyword or phrase related to the file(s) you need. Ask Jeeves Desktop Search will quickly search all your indexed documents and provide results that match your query.
Find the file name you're looking for from the list of results and open it - it's as easy as that.
Once you download Ask Jeeves Desktop Search, the program does the rest.

Last Updated 15 December 2009
Windows 2000/XP
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Blinkx Desktop Search 2

Blinkx is a new tool for searching and linking all kinds of information.
It uses advanced contextual searching technology to link to information across your desktop, the Web, e-mail, news sites, blogs, and even video archives--automatically. Blinkx continually reviews what you are reading and searches the Web and your desktop--instantly--to generate links related to the concepts you are reading or writing about.
These links change and refresh continually as you search through your information, with Blinkx generating links relevant to what you are seeing on screen.
You can leave Blinkx running as a background application, consulting it when you need it, or you can call up a standalone search box from your System Tray and use Blinkx like a traditional search engine.
Win 2000/XP
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FileCommander 5
FileCommander 5 is a huge freeware file explorer

FileCommander is a very powerfull file explorer with lots of tools in it (for example: file splitting).
You can include you own tools and open them of open a file with them.
With this tool you will not lose overview over you hard disk(s)! Several fast activateable previews (e.g. text preview, audio preview, picture preview ...) makes is posible for you to view into files very quickly.
It has lots of more features then the standart explorer. After over 2 years of work, this programm has lots of tools to speed up your work!

Features:
2 browser windows; extendable to 4 browser windows
A picture-, text-, hex-, html- and audio-preview for fast file viewing
Personal tool list: add any tool to the FileCommander and you can quickly open the tool or you can quickly open a file with a tool
Process list with extended information to each process
Software list for fast uninstalling and removing programs
Compare folders and synchronize them later
Compare files
Create a finger print of any folder and compare it to other folders
Splitt files into several smaller files and combine them later
Search for files in folders, network folders or in archives
Very detailed network monitor, including traffic monitor and connection monitor
Create screen shots of you desktop or of the active window
Get a detailed system report
Have a look over your drives and see, how much free space is available
Share your files with others in your LAN or over the internet
Very good copy process with lots of options for overwriting files
Favorize your folders and you can access them very quickly
Win 95/98/ME/2000/XP
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