Puggle Desktop Search

Finding files on your computer can take as little as blinking, or as difficult and frustrating when not even your search engine can locate them. However, there are various alternatives to the Windows built-in function, and Puggle Desktop Search is one of them, promising to retrieve files from anywhere they might be located.

After a quick and effortless setup process, you can go ahead and check out the set of features, but before you do, it’s best to make sure that Java Runtime Environment is installed on your computer, because it’s one of the components needed to function. What’s more, there’s also Portable Puggle you can use on the go.

The first time it runs, the configuration screen pops up, so you can take a bit of time to specify general application behavior, but mostly tweaks that refer to indexing options. As such, you can tell the application where exactly to store the index file, whether to save text, and thumbnails, and what kind of file extensions to target, with all of them selected by default.

Once these settings are configured and the main window is brought up on your desktop, you can start looking for files of interest. Luckily, indexing is done in real time, so that you can also initiate a search task, while the index is built, because it can take a considerable amount of time for this to happen, but there’s the possibility to stop, and resume it at a later time.

On the visual side of things, the application sports a clean look, and it doesn’t take long before you punch in a word in the upper toolbar for the search function to quickly look for it on your computer. Although suggestions don’t appear as you type, hitting the Find button almost instantly reveals results, especially if the index is already built.

Taking everything into consideration, we can say that Puggle Desktop Search is a reliable application which can be used to locate and retrieve files of interest in the blink of an eye. It’s especially useful for finding text inside various types of documents, including HTML, making it worth a try overall.