Windows Vista's Search component - is there anything better out th

[Rebecca Thomas]

Is there a better alternative to Windows Vista's Search component? I confess
I don't care for it - it is not even as good as Windows XP's was, in my
opinion. I find it confusing in certain aspects, and am frankly starting to
avoid using it. But I without doubt require the necessity of a "replacement
program". Can anyone out there direct me to something better? Thanks in
advance.

 

[Anil Ghatikar]

Although Vista serach is great to run any programme from start menu. I rely
on following programmes to serach my documents and emails, pictures etc-
Both are free and ranked among the best in desktop serach engines

Copernic desktop search
http://www.copernic.com/en/products/desktop-search/index.html

Google desktop search
http://desktop.google.com/

You can see the comparsion here

http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-3684_7-5536376-1.html

HAPPY SEARCHING

ANIL



"Rebecca Thomas" <RebeccaThomas@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:7A54B73A-C24F-48E4-A264-409337FFC24E@microsoft.com...
> Is there a better alternative to Windows Vista's Search component? I
> confess
> I don't care for it - it is not even as good as Windows XP's was, in my
> opinion. I find it confusing in certain aspects, and am frankly starting
> to
> avoid using it. But I without doubt require the necessity of a
> "replacement
> program". Can anyone out there direct me to something better? Thanks in
> advance.

 

[patcooke]

I find it pretty comprehensive and workable - is there a specific problem with it that you need to sort?

 

[Synapse Syndrome]

"Rebecca Thomas" <RebeccaThomas@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:7A54B73A-C24F-48E4-A264-409337FFC24E@microsoft.com...
> Is there a better alternative to Windows Vista's Search component? I
> confess
> I don't care for it - it is not even as good as Windows XP's was, in my
> opinion. I find it confusing in certain aspects, and am frankly starting
> to
> avoid using it. But I without doubt require the necessity of a
> "replacement
> program". Can anyone out there direct me to something better? Thanks in
> advance.

Copernic and Yahoo's desktop search programs are supposed to be the best
ones according to PCPro, which is the only decent computer magazine in the
UK IMO.

The group test was done over a year ago though, but I doubt any of them have
changed that much. I don't think Yahoo works with network drives, so if you
need that, use Copernic instead.

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/labs/139/desktop-search/introduction.html

ss.

 

[theclyde]

On Aug 13, 8:30 am, Rebecca Thomas
<RebeccaTho...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> Is there a better alternative to Windows Vista's Search component? I confess
> I don't care for it - it is not even as good as Windows XP's was, in my
> opinion. I find it confusing in certain aspects, and am frankly starting to
> avoid using it. But I without doubt require the necessity of a "replacement
> program". Can anyone out there direct me to something better? Thanks in
> advance.

I have been using Agent Ransack at work (under XP). I have not tried
it at home (under Vista) yet, but the first time I need to search for
text in a file I will be going that route.

 

[GeraldF]

In article <7A54B73A-C24F-48E4-A264-
409337FFC24E@microsoft.com>,
RebeccaThomas@discussions.microsoft.com says...
> Is there a better alternative to Windows Vista's Search component? I confess
> I don't care for it - it is not even as good as Windows XP's was, in my
> opinion. I find it confusing in certain aspects, and am frankly starting to
> avoid using it. But I without doubt require the necessity of a "replacement
> program". Can anyone out there direct me to something better? Thanks in
> advance.
>
Try turning on Natural Language searching as described
here: http://mike.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!
FBABF8E542F5D5DB!7837.entry

You can then enter searches like "Documents containing
Margaret Smith" and find all documents with Margaret
Smith in the document.