Desktop Assistant for Windows

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Editors’ Review

Download.com staffFebruary 21, 2024

This browser-based dictionary tool quickly looks up words and phrases, but it may override your default browser.

Desktop Assistant's icon resides in your system tray, where a click or a hot-key combination will quickly launch a small, unobtrusive interface dominated by a field for entering your search phrase. To find a definition, you can enter your word in the search field, or highlight an unknown word from a site or file and hit the defined hot key. From there, this tool finds your entry on The Free Dictionary site (www.thefreedictionary.com) and satisfactorily presents its definitions and synonyms.

Unfortunately, it overrode our settings for our default browser and operated only with Internet Explorer, which may not satisfy some users. There are no features other than word lookups, but it's free and easy to configure and use. All told, Desktop Assistant is handy for folks who write frequently but who don't always trust their word choices.

Desktop Assistant for Windows

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Full Specifications

GENERAL

Release: March 30, 2010

Latest update: February 21, 2024

Version: 1.6.173.0

OPERATING SYSTEMS

Platform: Windows

Operating System

Windows ME
Windows 2000
Windows NT
Windows 98 SE
Windows XP
Windows Vista
Windows 98

POPULARITY

Total Downloads: 23,215

Downloads Last Week: 0

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User Reviews

3.8/5

4 User Votes

Fantastic.
heeed11June 6, 2011
Pros
handy, very help full
Cons
works only with e-explorer where my main browser is Fire Fox! Boooo...
Summary
Over all, i love this product and use it on daily basis even though I've others such as Dixio(another good one),.......
Useful, but not worth having 'always on'
weyrleaderDecember 24, 2006
Pros
Decent speed and desktop integration
Cons
Only moderately useful. Not 'handy' to have to click a tray icon to bring up a text box to type in a term to search out... Can do this by typing the word in a search field off a website favorite link launched from the desktop just as easily.
Summary
What a terrific product!
AlexBest1November 15, 2006
Pros
Easy-to use, fast, excellent online dictionary
Cons
I wish I found it sooner. I used any dictionary website for a while, and this one is much better
Summary
ÃƒÂ„Ã‚Â°t migth be big but it is good
zero1trgetSeptember 5, 2006
Pros
It's accesible; more easy.
Cons
It uses a big place on right. (u can use big resolution)
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Developer’s Description

By Sphinx Software

Get instant access to any online application.

Desktop Assistant offers instant alt-click access from almost any application to the free online reference resource with English, Medical, Legal, Financial, and Computer Dictionaries, multiple Encyclopedias, Indexes of Acronyms and Idioms, a Thesaurus, and a Literature Reference Library.