Copernic Desktop Search gives you the possibility to instantly find files, images, multimedia, emails and more, that is located on your PC (not the Internet).
Copernic Desktop Search creates an initial index of your hard drive and provides an attractive and easy to use search interface that returns results instantly, as soon as you type in your keyword. It provides image thumbnails for picture matches, integrated preview with keyword highlighting and more.
Copernic Desktop Search can also (optionaly) index your web surfing history, as well as Contacts and Favorites
NOTE: Free for non-commercial home use
Here are some key features of "Copernic Desktop Search":
· Lets you perform sub-second searches of your PC's files and emails in a user-friendly interface.
· Enables you to search from any application, anytime. The search bar conveniently integrates with the Windows taskbar.
· Offers specific refining fields for each desktop search category.
· Uses your computer resources intelligently when indexing documents so as not to impair your work by throttling back while you are using other software.
· Displays and filters matching results as you type.
· Quickly creates and updates the index in the background with no limitation concerning the number of documents to be indexed.
· Delivers advanced fault tolerance and recovery architecture to ensure everlasting index integrity.
· Automatically indexes on-the-fly new and updated files in the background (Windows NT/2000/XP required), including new emails sent or received with Microsoft Outlook
· Supports advanced Boolean operators (AND/ , OR, NOT/-), quotes (exact phrase or whole word) and parentheses.
· Lets you enter keywords directly into the search box located in the Windows taskbar using a keyboard shortcut from any application.
· Lets you preview Web pages, text files, e-mails and pictures for selected results without needing to open any other application to analyze document's relevancy or cut and paste a selection.
· Scrolls document previews directly to the first word or phrase that you are looking for.
· Offers specific sorting and grouping fields for each search category in order to ease result viewing.
· Offers plenty of time-saving shortcuts to other applications via links and right-click menus available in search categories.
· Offers many customizable options to configure various features and parameters.
· Highlights search keywords with a different color for each keyword in result lists and previews of text files or documents.
Requirements:
· Internet Explorer 5.0 or later
· To index email/contacts: Outlook Express 5.x/6.x, Outlook 2000/XP/2003, Windows Address Book, Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 or later
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Fixed an Outlook detection issue
· Fixed an issue with the Windows mail indexing configuration
· Fixed an issue with Firefox 3.5 indexing
· Other minor fixes
