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Windows Search 4.0 Preview

Windows Search lets you instantly find documents, e-mail, attachments, and more, on your desktop or across the enterprise

Microsoft Windows Search, which consists of built-in search and organization features in Windows Vista, Windows Search for Windows XP, and the latest version for your desktop—Windows Search 4.0 Preview, provides an easy and comprehensive solution for finding and organizing the content you care about, no matter where it lives. Key benefits include:

Great User Experience:
Familiar yet powerful user interface for instantly finding files and e-mail messages located on your PC and connected resources, and one-click access to move, delete, copy, burn, attach, or drag and drop files as needed

Enterprise Ready:
Easy to deploy and easy to manage, with enterprise class security that blocks unauthorized access to sensitive information; robust Group Policy support gives IT Professionals control over everything—from the file types and locations that get indexed to how often the index runs over the network

Rich and Flexible Development Platform:
Easily extensible platform for third-party developers and IT professionals to build upon; comprehensive APIs for developers to display user search query results in custom applications and tools using Common Object Model (COM) interface
Win 2003/XP/Vista

Find and Run Robot

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

Copernic Desktop Search 3
Desktop Search Solution

Copernic Desktop Search (CDS) allows to instantly search files, e-mails, and e-mail attachments stored anywhere on your PC's hard drive. The application executes sub second searching of Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files, Acrobat PDFs, multimedia, etc. CDS is available in three versions: Home, Professional and Corporate.

Instantly find Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF, HTML, Word Perfect, text, ZIP files

Quickly locate emails or attachments from Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora and Mozilla Thunderbird

Streamline and optimize your search with specific refining fields or advanced search operators

Instantly preview filtered matching results

Win 98/ME/NT/2000/XP

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+

Win 2000/XP/Vista

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

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

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

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.
Win NT/2000/XP

Ask Desktop Search

Search your computer like you search the Web.
Never worry about misplacing a document again.How it works:

1: Ask.com Desktop Search indexes your hard drive when your computer is idle.
2: You search for a file or email on your computer, using your browser or the application interface.
3: Ask.com Desktop Search displays and previews any file that matches your query.

The next time you're looking for a computer file, use Ask.com Desktop Search to find it.

Ask.com Desktop Search is always up-to-date. It continually indexes your computer to ensure that your most recent files and emails are included in every search you do.
Windows 2000/XP

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

Snowbird 5

The fastest non-indexing desktop search tool just got better! The fifth version of Snowbird is a complete rewrite of the original Snowbird, and brings with it tons of features that were unavailable in earlier versions.
As ever, Snowbird retains its lightning-fast ability to search for text within files and automatically categorize the results into Documents, Pictures, etc.

The new version sports a new, more user-friendly interface which makes it easier to find what you want

Now you can restrict your search by date (modified today, yesterday, this month, etc.); by size (small, medium, large); or select only certain types of files to search (eg. only Webpages and Folders)

Minimize Snowbird to the system tray with a single keystroke and continue with your work while Snowbird searches in the background
Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP

Topicexplorer Desktop

Topicexplorer Desktop (Version 2.0) is an advanced directory, database and search tool all in one, capable of storing thousands of links to websites, images & photos, audio & video files and other media in a logical and ordered way.

Topicexplorer´s unique topic, sub-topic & category system allows users to create their own directories, and their own search engines.
In addition, Topicexplorer Desktop offers free, fully editable plug-in editions that features thousands of the most popular and interesting websites relating to a wide variety of topics.
Topicexplorer Desktop also integrates seamlessly with Microsoft Internet Explorer, and offers a simple to use interface.
Win 2000/XP

Mindbreeze Desktop Search

Use Mindbreeze Desktop Search to find documents and e-mail including attachments located on your computer. Find recently viewed web sites, notes and calendar items within seconds using MDS.

Mindbreeze Desktop Search is a completely free software for personal use. You can download it and use it for free!
Win 2000/XP/2003

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