- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: April 21, 2009
- Total Downloads: 95,154
- Downloads last week: 317
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 134 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 Home allows individuals to instantly search their files, e-mails, and e-mail attachments stored anywhere on their PC's hard drive. The application executes subsecond searching of Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files, Acrobat PDFs, multimedia, etc.
Version 3.2 Changes and improved tweaked deskbar design for better usability and fixes default folders now properly configured for Windows Mail.
What's new in this version:
Version 3.2 Changes and improved tweaked deskbar design for better usability and fixes default folders now properly configured for Windows Mail.
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User reviews of Copernic Desktop Search 3.2
- Average user rating: 3.9 stars out of 134 votes
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Version: Copernic Desktop Search 3.2
"Copernic desktop search great!"
Pros: Searches multiple types of documents at amazing speed. Taskbar and instant window access qute convenient. Can open documents and switch from one to the other fast. Searches both names of documents and within them.
Cons: Have had a couple of glitches but may be due to other programs.
Summary: Because of my work, I constantly have to search my hundreds of documents for previous mentions of people or events. Copernic has proven indispensable because of speed and flexibility: searches all formats of documents, and names as well as content o... read more >>
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Version: Copernic Desktop Search 3.2
"copernic is ok...but my choice is lookeen!"
Pros: lookeen is, in my opinion faster and more accurate concerning the search results
Cons: bote software are not completely for free
Summary: you can try lookeen for 30 day...after that you have to get a licence.
lookeen is an outlook plug, very fast and powerful in searching both, outlook and desktop. after the installation it integrates into outlook task and by this way, its fast a... read more >> -
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Version: Copernic Desktop Search 3.2
Pros: Even though it's quite limited compared to the paid versions it's still is very effective at what it does.
Cons: Past versions of this software weren't so limited. The new 3.0 version is more limited than the 2.0 version. It also shows one relatively small advertisement. However, the software still works great and it's free so I can't really complain...
Summary: Compared to other desktop search software this one doesn't ram my hard drive to the ground and its indexing is very fast. The overall interface is also quite nice and more advanced than others.
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Version: Copernic Desktop Search 3.2
"Works as advertised - seems to be pretty quick"
Pros: Speeds up basic searching and is not a big drain on system performance.
Cons: Doesn't have advanced metadata querying.
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Version: Copernic Desktop Search 3.2
"great productivity tool- pro version worth the money"
Pros: fast, easy to use, pro version also searches calendar, tasks, and notes
Cons: no issues thus far
Summary: fastest way to find missing information. ads are not that annoying and worth it if you want it free.... Copernic has a nice mobile plug in as well. Let's you search your computer with your cellphone... works well also.
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