Altavista Personal 97

[Voetleuce en f?nsievry]

G'day

Yep, I'm looking for Altavista Personal 97. This is a precursor to
the Google Desktop Search, except AVP97 worked fine on Windows 95
(which I'm forced to use by my employer). I found it last night on
some Hungarian site but this morning it was gone when I tried to
download it again.

Alternatively, anyone recommend a freeware desktop search tool (i.e.
one that indexes the hard disk and does instant searches) that runs on
Windows 95?

I can't get Quaneko to work either, even though I installed Borland's
free command line tools with accompanying DLLs. Quaneko seems to be
what I'm looking for... but I can't get it to work.

I'm under the impression that Copernic Desktop Search 1.0 worked on
Windows 95, but their latest version, 1.1, only runs on higher
versions of Windows and I can't find the older version anywhere.

Thanks in advance!
Samuel Murray

 

[vanrinsg]

Hi, why not trying Google Desktop Search? I know this is still a Beta one,
but I have installed it since a few days and it's working fine. it's rapid
like usual with any Google search and the indexation is done during free
time and in a hidden way

 

[nog]

Hi, why not trying Google Desktop Search? I know this is still a Beta one,
but I have installed it since a few days and it's working fine. it's rapid
like usual with any Google search and the indexation is done during free
time and in a hidden way

This phones home every time you browse to a new page.

 

[KHaled]

(e-mail address removed) (Voetleuce en f?nsievry) wrote in

G'day

Yep, I'm looking for Altavista Personal 97. This is a
precursor to the Google Desktop Search, except AVP97 worked
fine on Windows 95 (which I'm forced to use by my
employer). I found it last night on some Hungarian site
but this morning it was gone when I tried to download it
again.

Alternatively, anyone recommend a freeware desktop search
tool (i.e. one that indexes the hard disk and does instant
searches) that runs on Windows 95?

I can't get Quaneko to work either, even though I installed
Borland's free command line tools with accompanying DLLs.
Quaneko seems to be what I'm looking for... but I can't get
it to work.

I'm under the impression that Copernic Desktop Search 1.0
worked on Windows 95, but their latest version, 1.1, only
runs on higher versions of Windows and I can't find the
older version anywhere.

Thanks in advance!
Samuel Murray

Brings back fond memories when Digital (DEC)was known for its
leadership in technology, and was the number two only to IBM,
and Compaq was a pc maker who was competing with dell,
gateway, and the like.. HP ?? good calculators etc.. !!
(NO FLAMES PLEASE !!!)

More on-topic.. I don't know that you will be able to look
into newer versions of documents.. I would like to hear from
you about that, so please do post a follow-up.

THanks..
KHaled.

 

[Zo]

G'day

Yep, I'm looking for Altavista Personal 97. This is a precursor to
the Google Desktop Search, except AVP97 worked fine on Windows 95
(which I'm forced to use by my employer). I found it last night on
some Hungarian site but this morning it was gone when I tried to
download it again.

Alternatively, anyone recommend a freeware desktop search tool (i.e.
one that indexes the hard disk and does instant searches) that runs on
Windows 95?

I can't get Quaneko to work either, even though I installed Borland's
free command line tools with accompanying DLLs. Quaneko seems to be
what I'm looking for... but I can't get it to work.

I'm under the impression that Copernic Desktop Search 1.0 worked on
Windows 95, but their latest version, 1.1, only runs on higher
versions of Windows and I can't find the older version anywhere.

Thanks in advance!
Samuel Murray

You may still be able to download it form the web archives, be patient, it
may take some time.

The long url is:

http://web.archive.org/web/20020129153245/www.sofrano.com/download/down/AB/avsmc253c.exe

A shorter one is:

http://tinyurl.com/3v529

The file name is: avsmc253c.exe

The download size is 7.17 MB

Zo

 

[Zo]

G'day

Yep, I'm looking for Altavista Personal 97. This is a precursor to
the Google Desktop Search, except AVP97 worked fine on Windows 95
(which I'm forced to use by my employer). I found it last night on
some Hungarian site but this morning it was gone when I tried to
download it again.

Alternatively, anyone recommend a freeware desktop search tool (i.e.
one that indexes the hard disk and does instant searches) that runs on
Windows 95?

I can't get Quaneko to work either, even though I installed Borland's
free command line tools with accompanying DLLs. Quaneko seems to be
what I'm looking for... but I can't get it to work.

I'm under the impression that Copernic Desktop Search 1.0 worked on
Windows 95, but their latest version, 1.1, only runs on higher
versions of Windows and I can't find the older version anywhere.

Thanks in advance!
Samuel Murray

Forget the previous post. Trying to download from the archives is like
playing russian roulette. I was able to get a complete download from
here:

http://aroundcny.com/technofile/texts/AVSearch.exe


This is the site where I found the link.

http://aroundcny.com/technofile/texts/bit071298.html

Hope this helps.

Zo

 

[Anne]

Yep, I'm looking for Altavista Personal 97.

Just letting you know that Altavista Personal 97 is *not* Y2K
compliant. It may show that now is the year 104 or something. I don't
have it currently installed, so I can't check. Other than that, it
works fine.

 

[Voetleuce en f?nsievry]

Hi, why not trying Google Desktop Search? I know this is still a Beta one,
but I have installed it since a few days and it's working fine.

Google Desktop requires Windows 2000 SP3. It won't run on Windows
95... unless you can tell me something I don't know.

 

[MinMin]

Alternatively, anyone recommend a freeware desktop search tool (i.e.
one that indexes the hard disk and does instant searches) that runs on
Windows 95?

Thanks in advance!
Samuel Murray

Wilbur could be what you're after - according to the website "he" works
fine on Windows versions back to 95 and NT 4.0 -
http://wilbur.redtree.com/index.htm

Actually you've done me a favour - I see there's an updated version, so
I'm downloading it now

 

[Voetleuce en f?nsievry]

Voetleuce en f?nsievry wrote:

Forget the previous post. Trying to download from the archives is like
playing russian roulette. I was able to get a complete download from
here:

http://aroundcny.com/technofile/texts/AVSearch.exe

Thanks, the link worked and the program installed just fine. Plus,
Altavista indexes much quicker than Google, FileHand or Copernic!
Plus... all the things we like about Altavista which is missing from
Google is in this program too, such as case sentitive searching and
wildcards searching.

I've set up my computer to launch the search page in Opera 6.06 and it
works like a charm. I can also specify which folders to index.
Unfortunately the indexing update mechanism doesn't merely "update"
the index -- it recreates it from scratch, which can be a bummer if
you've got a huge hard disk and you want to index *everything*.

Altavista Personal 97 does not work on W2000 because it does not
recognise the root of the hard disk as such. You can select folders
to index on W2000, but it doesn't remember them and it can therefore
not index them (even if your C-drive is on a FAT32). If anyone has
any thoughts about how to coax W2000 into feeding the correct stuff to
Altavista, I'd be happy to hear it!

 

[Zo]

Thanks, the link worked and the program installed just fine. Plus,
Altavista indexes much quicker than Google, FileHand or Copernic!
Plus... all the things we like about Altavista which is missing from
Google is in this program too, such as case sentitive searching and
wildcards searching.

Glad I could help you out.

Zo