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- Price: Free to try (15-day trial); $74.95 to buy
- Operating system: Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: May 26, 2005
- Total Downloads: 822,247
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- Average user rating: stars out of 41 votes
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From X1 Technologies :X1 Desktop Search helps you find what you're looking for and ends the frustration experienced when looking for that one email or file you need to do your job. X1 searches email (including off-line Outlook PST and Notes NSF files), attachments, and files (over 225 different types, including Adobe Acrobat) on a local or networked hard drives. With support for popular e-mail clients, including Outlook, Outlook Express, Lotus Notes, Thunderbird, Mozilla, Netscape and Eudora, X1 is the most robust desktop search tool available today. X1 also searches more than 225 different types of files as fast as you can type. Unlike most other desktop search solutions, with each new keystroke, results are displayed and updated immediately and search terms are highlighted in a real-time preview of documents themselves. Finally, after finding the document you need, you can choose from dozens of actions to take (Reply, Forward, Open, Print, Delete, Export) on that document.
Version 5.2.1 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: X1 Desktop Search 5.2.1
"Fast indexing, nice interface...but misses indexing directories/files."
Pros: Quick indexing and intuitive interface. Tried Google and MS, and X1 is much better...on the surface.
Cons: Missed several directories/files on my hard drive. Posted detailed question to X1 help forum with no reply/answer supplied. I'd rather have slow and clumsy with 100% accuracy than quick with hit & miss. Seeing any files/directories missed left me concerned how deep the problem is. Most file names display all lowercase vs. actual file names as stored on hd. Long path names display right justified (lopped off on the left in the Path column), making it near useless.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: X1 Desktop Search 5.2.1
Pros: Fast searches for emails and documents from one spot.
Cons: Hangs my system (XP Pro) once or twice a day then phones home with an error report on re-boot. Very annoying.
In Outlook X1 doesn't index/search the calendar - a major shortcoming. When a client phones in I want their future appointment right then; emails and documents are secondary.
I will persist with it for another couple of weeks to see if the advantages outweight the negatives. It's line-ball so far.
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1 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: X1 Desktop Search 5.2.1
Pros: It certainly searches fast (but then again what program can't once it's taken 30 minutes to index your drive).
Cons: I have been desparately trying to find a viewer for an old file format, X1 website claimed full support (format is Professional Write for DOS).
After being hassled for mandatory name, phone number etc., I was allowed access download the file (I found the need to search the net to ensure it's not spyware after that ordeal).
After waiting ages for indexing the entire drive (wouldn't let me open or just index a single file/folder), I open my old-format file in X1, all excited that I can finally see it after 14 years, and what happens?...
... I get the Windows 'Open With...' helper! Suffice to say it was uninstalled straight after that (well, there was no uninstaller in the start menu either).
I usually don't comment on files I download, but some programs are just that bad. False advertising + horrible laggy custom UI + annoying program behaviour.
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