Desktop Search

[ClickerTicker]

If, like me, you have years of crud in all sorts of folders and partitions - remembering where you put things becomes more and more of a challenge. Windoze search is very slow and has very little functionallity.
For a year or two, I've been using Yahoo Desktop Search http://desktop.yahoo.com/ which I found to be very fast (near instantaneous results), great function - lots of viewers, and well behaved as an application (it yields to other apps very well).
Yahoo licence their desktop search from a company called "X1". X1 themselves used to charge for the enterprise client version of their product (essentially a more recent and higher function version of the Yahoo version). However, they've recently made the client version free. I've been using it for some weeks now and am very pleased with it. Much faster at searching emails than Outlook, etc. etc. You can download it from http://www.x1.com/resource_center/downloads.html. I have no connection with either Yahoo or X1.

 

[Ross]

Looks good to me! I'm tired of waiting and waiting for files to be found.

 

[ClickerTicker]

Ross - yes, I recommend you give it a try. Takes a fair while to index all your machine - but then it's going through every byte of pretty much every file looking for words to build the index.
From then on it keeps itself up to date with (from what I've seen) very little affect on other applications.
The viewer technology built into these things is pretty good - there's 300-odd file types that can be viewed without opening the file in the originating application. Sort of similar to Quickview Plus or File Manager enhancement products such as PowerDesk. Can be useful if someone sends you an attachment and you don't have the originating application installed yourself.