- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/Vista/NT
- Date added: May 29, 2007
- Total Downloads: 88,282
- Downloads last week: 479
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 139 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.
Version 2.1 build 2569 supports Windows Vista, Windows Mail, Microsoft Office 2007 documents.
What's new in this version:
Version 2.1 build 2569 supports Windows Vista, Windows Mail, Microsoft Office 2007 documents.
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User reviews of Copernic Desktop Search 2.1 build 2569
- Average user rating: 3.8 stars out of 139 votes
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: Copernic Desktop Search 2.1 build 2569
"Best desktop search available"
Pros: It finds everything - rarely a miss; easy interface; much, much better than the Google and Windows desktop search programs.
Cons: Would be better if you could print search results. Also, at times there will be multiple instances of the process running at the same time, but going into Task Manager to kill the extra processes is not a steep price to pay because the program itself is so much better than the competitors' products.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Copernic Desktop Search 2.1 build 2569
"You can Get Build 2575........."
Pros: Simply the Best.....but You can Get Build 2575 from the Copernic Website!
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Copernic Desktop Search 2.1 build 2569
Pros: It could open the files within few seconds before you could've finished the keywords on taskbar. Fantastic indeed!
Cons: Couldn't find faults with it and it is free.
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0 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: Copernic Desktop Search 2.1 build 2569
"The best way to find lost files on your computer, period."
Pros: Copernic Desktop Search is the way to go if you need to find files on your computer. The program does a one time, whole system index of files that are already on your hard-drive. That makes your searches lightning fast. It's better than Google Desktop, because it's faster and doesn't take up as many system resources. A great program. (If you are also interested in searching the internet, check out Copernics other program Copernic Agent.)
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Copernic Desktop Search 2.1 build 2569
"The best free desktop search"
Pros: Easy, fast, small resource usage, and unobtrusive.
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