Desktop Search Utilities

[asdf]

which good ones are available?
Their privacy policy is important to me
as well as the functionality of the program.

the ones that i've tried already are
google, yahoo, copernic, msn and ava find

Also I'm looking for utility that would
allow me to search through all of my CDROM
drives at once. So let's say i have 3 CDROM drives
with CDs in them. I want to search all of those disks at
once instead of one at a time. Any utility which will allow
me to do this.

thank you

 

[SamF.]

How was AVA find? Wich of the search programs you listed did you feel
worked the best?

I have not found anything I am happy with. Some of the Desktop search
programs will find the documents with the search data I have looked for
but I then have to search through the the document sperately.

My ideal Desktop search program would look through many documents but
have a display something like Inforaped Search and Replace.

 

[Dan Goodman]

which good ones are available?
Their privacy policy is important to me
as well as the functionality of the program.

the ones that i've tried already are
google, yahoo, copernic, msn and ava find

Agent Ransack works well for me.

--

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John Arbuthnot (1667-1735), Scottish writer, physician.
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[Donald Lessau]

...
Also I'm looking for utility that would
allow me to search through all of my CDROM
drives at once. So let's say i have 3 CDROM drives
with CDs in them. I want to search all of those disks at
once instead of one at a time. Any utility which will allow
me to do this.

XYplorer features a high end find files engine with tremendous power and
amazing speed. It fully supports Boolean logic, advanced pattern matching,
Regular Expressions, whole word and fuzzy matching, content search, multiple
location search, follow folder links, and much more...
Plus, XYplorer supports search templates: save your current search settings
to a template file for later re-use. Very handy with complex search patterns
or distributed search locations.

So, you would define your 3 CDROM drives as search location like e.g. this:
"D:\|E:\|F:\"; then save this search setting in a template file, e.g. called
"Search all CDROMs"; or lock it to a so-called "finding tab" to have it
always available at a single click.

http://www.xyplorer.com (file manager, shareware)

Don

 

[John Corliss]

XYplorer features a high end find files engine with tremendous power and
amazing speed. It fully supports Boolean logic, advanced pattern
matching, Regular Expressions, whole word and fuzzy matching, content
search, multiple location search, follow folder links, and much more...
Plus, XYplorer supports search templates: save your current search
settings to a template file for later re-use. Very handy with complex
search patterns or distributed search locations.

So, you would define your 3 CDROM drives as search location like e.g.
this: "D:\|E:\|F:\"; then save this search setting in a template file,
e.g. called "Search all CDROMs"; or lock it to a so-called "finding tab"
to have it always available at a single click.

(snipped link) (file manager, shareware)

Donald, alt.comp.freeware is supposed to be for the discussion of
freeware, not shareware. Perhaps you didn't notice that you were
cross-posting into that group.

--
Regards from John Corliss
I don't reply to trolls like Andy Mabbett or Doc (who uses sock puppets)
for instance. No adware, cdware, commercial software, crippleware,
demoware, nagware, PROmotionware, shareware, spyware, time-limited
software, trialware, viruses or warez for me, please.

 

[CyGhoSoft]

Op Mon, 26 Jun 2006 09:07:26 +0200 schreef Donald Lessau:

XYplorer features a high end find files engine with tremendous power and
amazing speed. It fully supports Boolean logic, advanced pattern matching,
Regular Expressions, whole word and fuzzy matching, content search, multiple
location search, follow folder links, and much more...
Plus, XYplorer supports search templates: save your current search settings
to a template file for later re-use. Very handy with complex search patterns
or distributed search locations.

So, you would define your 3 CDROM drives as search location like e.g. this:
"D:\|E:\|F:\"; then save this search setting in a template file, e.g. called
"Search all CDROMs"; or lock it to a so-called "finding tab" to have it
always available at a single click.

http://www.xyplorer.com (file manager, shareware)

Don

I have to agree on that. The search function in XYplorer is great (as well
as the rest of XYplorer)

 

[Donald Lessau]

Donald, alt.comp.freeware is supposed to be for the discussion of
freeware, not shareware. Perhaps you didn't notice that you were
cross-posting into that group.

Yep, I was answering unaware of the post being a cross-post. So I have to
manually edit the address field in Outlook Express, or how do you answer a
cross-post to just a sub-selection of the original target groups?

Don