- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/Vista/NT
- Date added: March 11, 2008
- Total Downloads: 93,352
- Downloads last week: 237
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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 2.3 build 18 added default desktop search integration options for Windows Vista SP1.
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User reviews of Copernic Desktop Search 2.3 build 18
- Average user rating: 3.8 stars out of 139 votes
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Version: Copernic Desktop Search 2.3 build 18
"Great, low usage, and everything I need + more"
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Version: Copernic Desktop Search 2.3 build 18
"been a great program for years"
Pros: Searches are quick and accurate. You can specify where to locate the data store. Can search email, photo's, favorites, files, etc.
Cons: I wish it had some Windows Explorer features so I could move and delete files from within Copernic.
Summary: null
I recently noticed that this latest version removes some features. You have to pay $50 for the Pro version to get some features that were free last year. Although I have use... read more >>
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Version: Copernic Desktop Search 2.3 build 18
"THIS PROGRAM IS FANTASTIC!!!!!"
Pros: There is no other way to put it. I would recommend this to anyone who wants to index their documents. It is great!
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Version: Copernic Desktop Search 2.3 build 18
Pros: great software,does the job.
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Version: Copernic Desktop Search 2.3 build 18
Pros: Excellent indexing function, fast and accurate results. Awesome tool to track down files when you need them the most. Thanks!!!
Cons: None
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