Not sure where to submit the question though….? It’s in regards to disappearing icon’s in the WinXP System Tray. PS: I’ve got another tech dilemma that you may be able to solve… and that some of your other readers may be experiencing as well. Thanks Lynette (once again) for keeping us informed about these great tech tools that we would never know about if it weren’t for the valuable insights you provide. I’m guessing that their other ‘paid-for’ products would be worthy of investigation too. Two thumbs up for Copernic Desktop Searching, especially since it’s free. A manual search would be way too time consuming. But what if I want to only find the articles that have information about Murals for Kids Rooms. Some of my library subfolders have 100’s and 100’s of articles in them all on the topic of, let’s say Kids Room Decor. This comes in handy when you have libraries of articles on specific topics accumulating in specific subfolders. You don’t even need to open the original documents on your hard drive if you don’t want to!īut what I like most is that I can tell Copernic exactly where to search on my hard drive… right down to a very specific subfolder. There are so many things I like about the Copernic Desktop Search Utility… including file specific searching for just image files with thumbnail views included in the search results – very nice!… searching for just audio files… searching for files of a specific size, date, etc – Nice, nice, nice!Īnd the preview window pane is beautiful – complete with automatic highlighting of the keywords you are searching for. And none of the big 3 utilities are very good at obeying simple commands like… “stop indexing my hard drive – I’m trying to work here!”Ĭopernic runs lite and lean in the background… you hardly know it’s there… except of course when you need to call on it to search your hard drive. Like you say MSN is a total resource hog (as are the Google and Yahoo desktop search utilities). Since then I’ve been using MSN desktop search (the best of the big 3 – IMHO).īut what a difference Copernic makes. Wow! I installed Copernic Desktop Utility and what a breath of fresh air!īTW: It was me you were talking with about the Google, Yahoo and MSN desktop search options back in Nov’05. Technorati Tags: computers, search, utilities The tool is free, and I recommend Copernic Desktop Search. Since using Copernic, I’ve found so many files I just never realized was there or completely forgotten about. So now, I don’t even have to power up Thunderbird just to search the emails (yet another virtual jungle). And unlike Outlook, there are few tools that To me the email part is the clincher because I don’t use Outlook, I use Thunderbird. I can quickly filter my search by file, image, videos, music and get this. The nice part about it is it can search network drives (those not on my computer). It’s not only fast but it does it’s job without getting in my way. To make it worse, each time I wanted to find and open a file it seems the darn thing would kick into high gear slowing my computer down considerably and mind you, I have a fast PC.Ī month ago, forced into action by the rapidly growing jungle in my computer, I tried Copernic Desktop Search and I’m truly surprised at this thing. Then, I didn’t like desktop search programs because I tried one and boy did it suck my resources big time. Well actually it’s only hidden to the human eye.Ī while back, someone asked me about desktop search software, if I had some other suggestion other than Google Desktop, Yahoo or even MSN. I’ve got stuff filed in neat folders and I usually know where to find the most commonly used stuff yet sometimes despite my best efforts of searching some files still slip through the crack into virtual oblivion. For the most part I’m pretty organized with my hard drive. Whenever something goes in, it seems like it’s almost impossible to find when I need it.ĭo you feel that way? Don’t get me wrong. This is definitely one of the drawbacks of obscenely huge drives. I cringe when I think of sorting through stuff or even trying to organize it. Is your hard drive akin to hundreds of year old tropical forest? Mine is – the whole 160 virtual acres of it.
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