Copernic Desktop Search 1.5 Overview

Copernic Desktop Search is a software that indexes files, emails, images, videos, audios, contacts, favorites and so on saved on your PC, including network drives, and conducts sub-second desktop searches with high relevant results.

It also allows you to search the Web for sites, news, products and so on using predefined categories. It offers direct and integrated desktop and Web search capabilities within the Microsoft Windows operating system. It is bundled with a search deskbar located on the Windows taskbar providing quick and one-entry permanent access to powerful desktop and Web searching.

Copernic Desktop Search is always available with a single click. It offers non-obtrusive, integrated entry-points into your operating system:

• Desktop Search Window: Perform searches in an easy-to-use interface, open folders or files directly, and more!
• Windows Deskbar: Perform searches from any application, anytime. This search bar conveniently integrates with the Windows taskbar.

Copernic Desktop Search's other key features:

• Lets you perform sub-second searches of your PC's files and emails in a user-friendly interface.
• Enables you to search from any application, anytime. The search bar conveniently integrates with the Windows taskbar.
• Offers specific refining fields for each desktop search category.
• Searches simultaneously in all desktop search categories.
• Uses your computer resources intelligently when indexing documents so as not to impair your work by throttling back while you are using other software.
• Displays and filters matching results as you type.
• Quickly creates and updates the index in the background with no limitation concerning the number of documents to be indexed.
• Allows you to specify additional file types to index as references only with no limit on the numerous file types to be processed.
• Delivers advanced fault tolerance and recovery architecture to ensure everlasting index integrity.
• Automatically indexes on-the-fly new and updated files in the background (Windows NT/2000/XP required), including new emails sent or received with Microsoft Outlook.
• Supports advanced Boolean operators (AND/+, OR, NOT/-), quotes (exact phrase or whole word) and parentheses.
• Lets you enter keywords directly into the search box located in the Windows taskbar using a keyboard shortcut from any application.
• Lets you preview Web pages, text files, emails, music files, pictures, videos and contact sheets for selected results without needing to open any native application to analyze document relevancy or cut and paste a selection.
• Scrolls document previews directly to the word or phrase that you are looking for.
• Displays dynamic word-find buttons in order to trace keywords in document previews.
• Offers specific sorting and grouping fields for each search category in order to ease result viewing.
• Offers plenty of time-saving shortcuts to other applications via links and right-click menus available in search categories.
• Offers a lot of customizable options to configure various features and parameters.
• Highlights search keywords with a different color for each keyword in result lists and previews of text files or documents.
• Supports Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla and Netscape 6x./7.x/8.x browsers.
• Features a COM API allowing third-party developers to create plug-ins that enable new file type indexing (view PDF documentation).

Available desktop search categories:

• Files: Office documents (Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, Excel worksheets), WordPerfect documents, Adobe Acrobat documents, HTML pages, Text files/RTF, and ASP, .C, .CPP, .CS, .CSV, .H, .INC, .INI, JAVA, .PAS, .XML, .XSL documents. Certain file properties only are also indexed by default for these additional text files: GZ, HLP, RAR, SWF, TAR, VSD.
• Emails: Outlook 2000/XP/2003, Outlook Express 5.x/6.x, Eudora 5.0 and Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 emails and attachments.
• Music: Indexing of metadata for iTunes, MP3, OGG, WMA and WAV music files.
• Pictures: Indexing of metadata for EXIF, JPEG, GIF picture files.
• Videos: Indexing of metadata for MPEG, QuickTime and Windows Media video files.
• Favorites/Bookmarks: The browser favorites or bookmarks (Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla or Netscape 6x./7.x/8.x).
• History: The browser history (Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla or Netscape 6x./7.x/8.x).
• Contacts: Outlook 2000/XP/2003 (including Exchange Server), Outlook Express 5.x/6.x, Windows Address Book and Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 contacts.

Available Web search domains of interest may differ substantially over the course of time. Please refer directly to the software to learn more about them.

Copernic Desktop Search: the tool you need to find any file!