Free Programs

Copernic Desktop Search    View Screenshot

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"Allows you to instantly find files, emails, images, multimedia and more, that is located on your PC (not the Internet). It creates an initial index of your hard drive and provides an attractive and easy to use search interface that returns results instantly, as soon as you type in your keyword. It provides image thumbnails for picture matches, integrated preview with keyword highlighting and more. Copernic Desktop Search can also (optionaly) index your web surfing history, as well as Contacts and Favorites. A very nice and easy to use tool to find files on your computer." --Snapfiles.com

5/5 stars

4/5 stars

Google Desktop Search     View Screenshot

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"View personalized news, photos, and more on your desktop
Search for files across all your computers New! Share information with your friends right from the Sidebar New! Find your emails, files, photos, web history, Gmail, and more."

--Snapfiles.com

3.5/5 stars

4/5 stars

MSN Search Toolbar With Desktop Search 

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"A small and well functioning popup stopper with two surfing modes (natural, strict) that offer different levels of pop-up protection. The natural mode will close most common popups and not interfere withyour browsing. The strict mode, as the name indicates is rather strict and will close any type of new browser window - it can only be bypassedby pressing a hotkey on the keyboard. Free Surfer offers full IE Integration, allowed sites list with customizable rules, a handy panic button (closes all browser windows with one click), an option to disable Flash and more. An additional snaphot manager feature allows you to

save all your open browser windows and restore it later. " 

--Snapfiles.com

3.5/5 stars

Yahoo Desktop Search beta     View Screenshot

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"lets you quickly find all your emails, attachments and files. Immediately locate any email, attachment or contact from Outlook or Outlook Express. Quickly retrieve any file on your computer, regardless of where it is located. Search for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF, text, HTML, ZIP and over 200 other file types.

Instantly preview results. View search results as quickly as you can type with your search terms highlighted. Preview files exactly as they should look (e.g., Excel looks like Excel, PDF looks like PDF). Find and play audio and video files without launching a separate media player. Power your email searches Search for email including the contents of attachments, regardless of file type. Use the Outlook tool bar to conduct searches while you are doing email. View, reply, forward and print emails after you've found them.

Customize and control your desktop search experience- Save your favorite searches for one-click reuse. Search the Web using Yahoo! Search from the same interface. Ensure your privacy by not indexing your Web browser history. Set indexing options by file type, email client, and contacts."

--Download.com

3.5/5 stars