Windows desktop search 3.0

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Windows desktop search 3.0

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have any of you tried this

I just put it on my machine here at work and I must say...I'm quite impressed. It's finding files as I type them into the search box...literally that fast!
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Dude, that was like pulling teeth getting that download. I gave up after having to install a Firefox plugin, then having to download and execute a system checker so I could get a code that would in turn take me to another page, and yadda yadda. Screw it, if Microsoft were that cool, they would just let you have it.
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you shouldn't have given up. you were to the light at the end....and it's well worth it.
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I get it... if you download it with explorer everything zings. But if you are using a non-M$ browser, then all hell breaks lose on you... nice.

Anyway, I will try it out. I just downloaded and installed it.

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And it looks fairly neat. When I get a bit of time to wrench it a bit, I might play with it. Otherwise, it might just become start bar fodder... But thanks for the resource Burr.
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does it eat several gigs indexing your drive like GDS?
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No, remarkably, it was rather gentle on my system. Of course there seems to be an enormous amount of setting up to do with it, but it went pretty fast.
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How about using one of the best indexes you can get? Your brain.

If you properly organize and maintain your stuff, you shouldn't need to really search for much, if anything. While I may be nearly alone in this, I rarely have to search through my documents or graphics files to find something.
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feyd wrote:How about using one of the best indexes you can get? Your brain.
You realize we are not all born equally? :lol:
feyd wrote:If you properly organize and maintain your stuff, you shouldn't need to really search for much, if anything. While I may be nearly alone in this, I rarely have to search through my documents or graphics files to find something.
You're not alone. Search on mac is really fast and works like desktop search (or better said the other way around) but I don't use it often. Having a good system of different sections and folders to put things in helps a lot in finding stuff. Most stuff is 3 - 4 levels deep, max. Like /webdesign/php/classes/coolclassfeydwrote.php
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matthijs wrote:You realize we are not all born equally? :lol:
I'm quite aware of this fact. However our minds are overall fundamentally engineered as correlative matrices. This is the basis for my postulate.
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It's very rare for me to need to search for a file. I had google desktop search on for a while before I switched to linux again, but I can honestly say I never used it beyond testing how quick it can find a file I already know the location of.

I guess I'm just good at remembering where I put my stuff.
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Everah wrote:Screw it, if Microsoft were that cool, they would just let you have it.
I rather like the idea of not letting theiving scum have access to the same stuff as people that pay for their copy of Windows.
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