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From: Leonard Grey on 12 Nov 2009 10:32
Have you tried Google? That's what we do.
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Leonard Grey
Errare humanum est

ship wrote:
> WindowsXP Pro
> msOffice 2003
> Xara Xtreme Pro
> MindManager
> FreeMind
> ...} all latest versions
>
>
> Hi
>
> Can anyone recommend a utility for searching my local WindowsXP PC?
>
> I need to do text searching across msOffice2003 files (e.g. Outlook,
> Excel, Word).
>
> (Optionally, I would IDEALLY also like to be able to search files
> from: Xara Xtreme Pro, Mindjet's MindManager, FreeMind, plus HTML, PDF
> files... but this is not a deal breaker.)
>
> I have tried
> - WindowXP's search
> ==> horrible. I have uninstalled it and use the previous version -
> which is very slow but more accurate.
> Fails to do outlook files.
>
> - GoogleDesktop
> ==> Initially I was impressed, but now keeps failing to spider things.
> Terrible at handling archivals of emails.
>
> - Copernic Desktop (v3.2.1)
> ==> Takes literally *days* to spider/re-spider. Clunky & processor
> hungry.
> Not good at handling archivals of emails.
>
> All I need something as powerful as Google websearch, but that runs
> across my own PC !
>
> For example exact phrase matching (e.g. by using double quotes around
> a phrase)
> For example negative matching - i.e. excluding certain phrases
>
> I am becoming increasingly desperate!!
>
> - Any thoughts?
>
>
> Ship
> Shiperton Henethe
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