- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows 98
- Date added: October 15, 2005
- Total Downloads: 88,282
- Downloads last week: 479
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 133 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo aren't the only ones bringing more search power to consumer desktops. Copernic's Desktop Search tool makes it fast and easy to find documents, e-mails, and other files on local drives. Like other desktop search tools, it creates a searchable index of all the data on a computer's drives, and updates it every time a file is added, removed, or modified.
A left-side search column allows simple keyword queries and more refined searches based on file size, date, file type, or folder. Easy-to-read icons at the top of the screen let you limit searches by category, such as stored HTML pages, e-mail, and videos. The program is lightning-quick, displaying results as fast as you can type.
We especially like the Copernic Deskbar, a search window that appears in the Windows Taskbar and makes quick queries very handy. However, we would like an image viewer, and we wish the application's PowerPoint viewer could display graphics. Copernic comes with optional search toolbars for Internet Explorer and Firefox.
Overall, Copernic offers an efficient way to search your PC, especially for multiple or large hard drives.
Publisher's description
From Copernic :Copernic Desktop Search brings a search engine right to your PC and allows you to instantly search files, e-mails, and e-mail attachments stored anywhere on your PC hard drive. The application executes subsecond searching of Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files, Acrobat PDFs, all popular music, picture, and video formats, contacts, the browser history, and Favorites. It features a seamlessly integrated previewer that instantly provides you with a view of the file or e-mail you're looking for. The previewer highlights all search terms and automatically scrolls to the first use of these terms in a document, eliminating the frustration of having to sort through endless text to pinpoint specific words. This latest version provides a more refined search experience thanks to performance optimizations, new customization options, user-interface improvements, and bug fixes.
Version 1.61 build 783 indexes all non-password-protected Outlook Express identities and enhances visual definition of the last used category in the deskbar category selection window.
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User reviews of Copernic Desktop Search 1.61 build 783
- Average user rating: 3.8 stars out of 133 votes
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Copernic Desktop Search 1.61 build 783
Pros: Neat, professional interface. Fast indexing. Reads PDF files. Works like a charm! Have tried Google Desktop and MSN Desktop and this one wins hands down! And it's FREE!
Cons: None
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Version: Copernic Desktop Search 1.61 build 783
Pros: Thums up.
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Version: Copernic Desktop Search 1.61 build 783
"Good utilility but with a major limitation"
Pros: Fast, stable, effective. Attractive interface.
Cons: Doesn't index Outlook Calendar/Appointments. This might not concern most users but for me it's a major flaw. I run a small business that involves taking appointments months in advance. When a client rings I want to get to their appointment as fast as I can - and Copernic won't do it. For this reason have I've reverted MSN Windows Desktop Search.
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Version: Copernic Desktop Search 1.61 build 783
Pros: This program is amazing. It can index just about any type of media and preview it for you without the need for any extra plugin, but developers can add their own plugins with their software. Because it isn't trying to link you back to google or yahoo, it doesn't use a webpage to show your results. In addition to all the file types that i can index initially, you can add any kind of extension to be indexed, .rar, .exe, .jar,.zip etc. It'd be great if these could be previewed as easily as the media, but i'm sure that's coming. The search results display is clean and uncluttered, and allows you to sort by many different categories. Also it reads just about all metadata.
Cons: The indexing has a bit of trouble with deleted files, otherwise flawless.
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Version: Copernic Desktop Search 1.61 build 783
Pros: ecxellent....excellent.
I have using this program since last one year and found this is the best program. I have tried many similiar programs but this is the best one. It indexes files with lightining speed and light on memory. Search results are displayed with lightning speed.what i can say more...
Cons: nothing....nothing....nothing
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