Overview:
Copernic desktop search is a desktop search utility for Windows.
Features:
Find any file on your computer
* Instantly find Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF, HTML, Word Perfect, text, ZIP files.
* Quickly locate emails or attachments from Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora and Mozilla Thunderbird.
* Search for over 150 other types of files like MP3, JPG, WAV, MPEG.
* Power your search with specific refining fields or advanced search operators.
Results and beyond
* Instantly preview filtered matching results.
* Use dynamic word-find buttons to trace keywords in document previews.
* Quickly find search keywords: auto-scroll to first occurrence and highlighted keywords.
* Easily sort and group search results.
* Act on result: open folders or files, open, reply or forward emails, etc.
Copernic's usability expertise
* Search the Web or your computer from the same lightweight, intuitive interface.
* Use convenient toolbars: deskbar and browser toolbar.
* Stay informed with RSS feeds delivered straight to your ticker Internet Explorer browser only.
* Speed up your access to Web and desktop searching with useful keyboard shortcuts.
Take control of your search experience
* Choose file and email folders to index.
* Control your computer resources usage when indexing documents.
* Specify additional file types to index.
* Benefit from automatic, unnoticed real-time indexing of new/updated files and emails.
* Selectively suspend the indexing process when a laptop runs on battery power.
Review:
If you are anything like me you probably keep all your computer files all over the place, this is is bad when you are trying to look for a specific file and can´t find it because you don´t remember where you put it in. now you could spend hours looking for that file or simply use copernic desktop search, this program will scan your hard drives for files and will index them for easy searching. By default copernic desktop search will only index your files when your computer is idle but that is annoying so i suggest you uncheck that option in the preference screen and only leave the "suspend indexing while computer resources are highly used" option, this way the indexing will go much faster like in my case. You can put a highly useful search bar right in the Windows taskbar which can be used for quick searches, also copernic desktop search doesn´t take many resources , in my experience it only used like 6 to 7 MB with the search bar in the taskbar which is great. Finally i would like to say that this program was able to index all of the files in "my documents" folder and desktop well and was able to detect new files quickly which is truly awesome if you ask me.
In conclusion if you want a lightweight, fast and efficient desktop searching tool i suggest you use Copernic Desktop Search. Available for all versions of Windows.
http://download3.copernic.com/copernicdesktopsearch2.exe