Hi there,

I upgraded from Office 2003 to Office 2007 about a month ago. When I first
started outlook I was saddened to find that my third party search utility,
Lookout, would no longer work. Does anyone know if there's a good alternative
to Lookout?

I've given the built in search a fair chance, and I've even upgraded it by
installing the windows desktop search utility. Unfortunately, I find that
both are inadequate, and are not as good as the Lookout tool that I
previously used.

I tried the Google Desktop search for a while. That wasn't bad. However
within 4 days it had created a 3 GB index file on my machine. That's a lot of
disk space to just index my email.

If anyone has suggestions, I'm open. I've seen a serious drop in
productivity since installing Office 2007 and losing my search utililty.

Thanks!

- Dave

You'd think when they bought Lookout that Microsoft would have been able to
at least make something as good.
There is Copernic. Fast, light footprint.

I found another recently in beta, but haven't tried it yet:
http://www.lookeen.net/


"Dave" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:69128C80-51DE-4D54-A4BB-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi there,
>
> I upgraded from Office 2003 to Office 2007 about a month ago. When I first
> started outlook I was saddened to find that my third party search utility,
> Lookout, would no longer work. Does anyone know if there's a good
> alternative
> to Lookout?
>
> I've given the built in search a fair chance, and I've even upgraded it by
> installing the windows desktop search utility. Unfortunately, I find that
> both are inadequate, and are not as good as the Lookout tool that I
> previously used.
>
> I tried the Google Desktop search for a while. That wasn't bad. However
> within 4 days it had created a 3 GB index file on my machine. That's a lot
> of
> disk space to just index my email.
>
> If anyone has suggestions, I'm open. I've seen a serious drop in
> productivity since installing Office 2007 and losing my search utililty.
>
> Thanks!
>
> - Dave

Lookout is now part of Windows Desktop Search.

Dave wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I upgraded from Office 2003 to Office 2007 about a month ago. When I first
> started outlook I was saddened to find that my third party search utility,
> Lookout, would no longer work. Does anyone know if there's a good alternative
> to Lookout?
>
> I've given the built in search a fair chance, and I've even upgraded it by
> installing the windows desktop search utility. Unfortunately, I find that
> both are inadequate, and are not as good as the Lookout tool that I
> previously used.
>
> I tried the Google Desktop search for a while. That wasn't bad. However
> within 4 days it had created a 3 GB index file on my machine. That's a lot of
> disk space to just index my email.
>
> If anyone has suggestions, I'm open. I've seen a serious drop in
> productivity since installing Office 2007 and losing my search utililty.
>
> Thanks!
>
> - Dave

Try Windows Desktop Search.

It indexes your email as well as documents on your computer.

Dear Pat,

> Lookout is now part of Windows Desktop Search.

Windows Desktop only supports "Personal Folder" and "Personal Mailboxes", so
it is not the same.

Windows Desktop search has much more limitations (our experiences).

LookOut supports also additional "shared" PST files, so there is a big
different beween LookOut and Windows Desktop search.

--
Oliver Vukovics
Share your Outlook PST files without Exchange: Public ShareFolder
Synchronisation for Outlook and Exchange: Public SyncTool
http://www.publicshareware.com

"Pat Willener" <(E-Mail Removed)> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Lookout is now part of Windows Desktop Search.
>
> Dave wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I upgraded from Office 2003 to Office 2007 about a month ago. When I
>> first started outlook I was saddened to find that my third party search
>> utility, Lookout, would no longer work. Does anyone know if there's a
>> good alternative to Lookout?
>>
>> I've given the built in search a fair chance, and I've even upgraded it
>> by installing the windows desktop search utility. Unfortunately, I find
>> that both are inadequate, and are not as good as the Lookout tool that I
>> previously used.
>>
>> I tried the Google Desktop search for a while. That wasn't bad. However
>> within 4 days it had created a 3 GB index file on my machine. That's a
>> lot of disk space to just index my email.
>>
>> If anyone has suggestions, I'm open. I've seen a serious drop in
>> productivity since installing Office 2007 and losing my search utililty.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> - Dave

Oliver Vukovics <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> LookOut supports also additional "shared" PST files, so there is a
> big different beween LookOut and Windows Desktop search.

Ther's no such thing as a shared PST, since PSTs can't be shared.
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

Hi Pat.

Lookout was acquired by Microsoft, yes. And some of the components in the
Windows Desktop search are likely similar. However, I find that the Windows
Desktop Search utility is not the same as Lookout.

The WDS utility just isn't as good.

- Dave

"Pat Willener" wrote:

> Lookout is now part of Windows Desktop Search.
>
> Dave wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I upgraded from Office 2003 to Office 2007 about a month ago. When I first
> > started outlook I was saddened to find that my third party search utility,
> > Lookout, would no longer work. Does anyone know if there's a good alternative
> > to Lookout?
> >
> > I've given the built in search a fair chance, and I've even upgraded it by
> > installing the windows desktop search utility. Unfortunately, I find that
> > both are inadequate, and are not as good as the Lookout tool that I
> > previously used.
> >
> > I tried the Google Desktop search for a while. That wasn't bad. However
> > within 4 days it had created a 3 GB index file on my machine. That's a lot of
> > disk space to just index my email.
> >
> > If anyone has suggestions, I'm open. I've seen a serious drop in
> > productivity since installing Office 2007 and losing my search utililty.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > - Dave
>

Hi Chameleon,

As I mentioned in my original post:

> I've given the built in search a fair chance, and I've even upgraded it by
> installing the windows desktop search utility. Unfortunately, I find that
> both are inadequate, and are not as good as the Lookout tool that I
> previously used.

Thanks for the suggestion though. I appreciate the reply.

- Dave

"ChameleonDevil" wrote:

>
> Try Windows Desktop Search.
>
> It indexes your email as well as documents on your computer.

All good points.

Also, I miss having:
- a seperate window for search results.
- the accuracy of results that Lookout provided.
- the speed that lookout provided.
- the ability to search a range of dates (and not just the few options
that outlook provides, I mean I want the ability to search for all email
during a 3 day period in October 2003)

The seperate search box is probably the biggest thing for me though.

"Oliver Vukovics" wrote:

> Dear Pat,
>
> > Lookout is now part of Windows Desktop Search.
>
> Windows Desktop only supports "Personal Folder" and "Personal Mailboxes", so
> it is not the same.
>
> Windows Desktop search has much more limitations (our experiences).
>
> LookOut supports also additional "shared" PST files, so there is a big
> different beween LookOut and Windows Desktop search.
>
> --
> Oliver Vukovics
> Share your Outlook PST files without Exchange: Public ShareFolder
> Synchronisation for Outlook and Exchange: Public SyncTool
> http://www.publicshareware.com
>
> "Pat Willener" <(E-Mail Removed)> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Lookout is now part of Windows Desktop Search.
> >
> > Dave wrote:
> >> Hi there,
> >>
> >> I upgraded from Office 2003 to Office 2007 about a month ago. When I
> >> first started outlook I was saddened to find that my third party search
> >> utility, Lookout, would no longer work. Does anyone know if there's a
> >> good alternative to Lookout?
> >>
> >> I've given the built in search a fair chance, and I've even upgraded it
> >> by installing the windows desktop search utility. Unfortunately, I find
> >> that both are inadequate, and are not as good as the Lookout tool that I
> >> previously used.
> >>
> >> I tried the Google Desktop search for a while. That wasn't bad. However
> >> within 4 days it had created a 3 GB index file on my machine. That's a
> >> lot of disk space to just index my email.
> >>
> >> If anyone has suggestions, I'm open. I've seen a serious drop in
> >> productivity since installing Office 2007 and losing my search utililty.
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >>
> >> - Dave
>
>
>

What happens if you absolutely *do not want* the Windows Desktop Resource Hog
(I mean search)? I upgraded to Outlook 07 yesterday, installed their
resource pig of an "add-in" for the search capability, and now my machine
crawls. It's not an old machine either, it's a pretty powerful desktop
running XP Pro. And I even configured it to *only* search my email - I
really do not want my documents indexed, nor do I need it.

The long and short is, if I cannot search without the ridiculous desktop
search application then Outlook 07 is totally useless to me. There has to be
a 3rd party alternative somewhere...