RAGGATIP Posted November 11, 2006 Posted November 11, 2006 What is the best desktop search utility?By this I mean the smallest footprint on the computers resources. This fastest seek time and the most types of files supported. Secondary to these prerequisites are the appearance and the lack of junk it installs to the registry. Preferably (for me anyway) open source but can be free or for a fee. Answers on a post card please.
ringfinger Posted November 11, 2006 Posted November 11, 2006 Based on my experience, Locate32 is the fastest I've ever used. Take an index which is very fast, then search... and boom! Results!
ricktendo Posted November 11, 2006 Posted November 11, 2006 WDS Windows Desktop Search... Cool and Free
#rootworm Posted November 11, 2006 Posted November 11, 2006 gnu grep for windows!http://pages.interlog.com/~tcharron/grep.html
jcarle Posted November 11, 2006 Posted November 11, 2006 Start -> SearchWhat, you never knew that? In fact, that's even faster then desktop search because you'll have many freed resources due to a lack of bloated desktopware running.
LLXX Posted November 12, 2006 Posted November 12, 2006 Start -> SearchWhat, you never knew that? In fact, that's even faster then desktop search because you'll have many freed resources due to a lack of bloated desktopware running....and to anyone that says indexing makes searching faster: if you really need to search that often unless you're running a search engine of some sort, you need to organise your files better
MagicAndre1981 Posted November 13, 2006 Posted November 13, 2006 (edited) Based on my experience, Locate32 is the fastest I've ever used. Take an index which is very fast, then search... and boom! Results!this tool is fantastic, I love it I'm using it for a longer time Edited November 13, 2006 by MagicAndre1981
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