Windows Toolbox: Look Farther and Wider With Copernic Desktop Search

The MSN Toolbar Suite isn't the only indexed searching game in town. Copernic Desktop Search provides many of the same features, including the ability to search local hard disks, the Web, and Outlook and Outlook Express e-mail. Copernic also lets you conduct searches using either an application window or a taskbar toolbar, choose the folders you want to have indexed, set indexing to occur in the background, and use Boolean operators to refine your search, just as you can with the MSN toolbars. But Copernic Desktop Search also lets you filter search results based on such attributes as file size and date; and it gives you a preview pane for seeing a file's contents without launching a separate application to open it. In addition, you can store the index file in the folder of your choice; set the time and interval for index updating; and search Outlook contacts, as well as bookmarks and browser history in Internet Explorer, Firefox, Mozilla, and Netscape. And like the MSN Toolbar Suite, Copernic Desktop Search is absolutely free.

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