I've used Google Desktop Search, Copernic, Yahoo Desktop Search, and Microsoft's Windows Search. What do all these programs have in common? They are all resource hogs that can slow down your system. After I got tired of the constant noise coming from my hard drive being accessed relentlessly, I just gave up on all of them. These programs build huge databases of all the files on your hard drive including the contents, for the purpose of allowing you to quickly find the files you are looking for based on keywords that appear in the files. Admittedly, they do a good job of searching and the results come up quickly if not instantaneously. But that is to be expected. After all, that's what an indexed database of every word in every file is supposed to do. Unfortunately, with all these products, the cost is a big chunk of hard drive space, coupled with what seems like constant disk access.
tags: files, freeware, index, search, software, utilitiesFeb 14
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