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License:
Free
- Editor's Rating:
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Downloads:
85,138
- Requirements:
Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP/Vista
- Limitations:
No limitations
- Date Added:
September 02, 2008
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Publisher's description of Copernic Desktop Search
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 3 includes various bug fixes.
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Editor's review of Copernic Desktop Search
4.0 stars
- "Search with Copernic"
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.
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Copernic Desktop Search 3.0.0 Build 74
Pros: Finds stuff
Cons: Can't open emails from Outlook, no longer freeware
Summary: 2.3 was a great product. Indexed eveything, I could open Outlook emails. It was also free. This product is a pay product for business users. There is no reason to upgrade.
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Version: Copernic Desktop Search 3.0.0 Build 74
Pros: Not much! None! Not any!
Cons: Doesn't work for long. Lousy user interface.
Summary: At first it worked, then it wouldn't. Took hours and hours to index my hard drive. Then it lost any ability to find its own index. It wanted to start to re-index the whole thing. It took days to index a data DVD, then the lost that too.I never clear... read more >>
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Copernic Desktop Search 3.0.0 Build 74
"Previous version 2.3 Build 18 was the best around"
Pros: Read my review of version 2.3
Cons: I do not like how this version upgrades without telling you that the My Searches facility will not be available unless you purchase the full product.
It also deletes all My Searches saved from version 2.3Summary: DO NOT UPGRADE TO VERSION 3.
Version 3 has been cut down to make you purchase the product with the facilities available in version 2. You will lose the valuable My Searches facility.
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