Re: OT question - Copernic Desktop Search

["Patricia M. Godfrey" priscamg@xxxxxxxx]

BrennerNY@xxxxxxxx wrote:
>    The Win XP search function is grossly inferior to the one MS
> provided in Win98, which could quickly locate any file on my hard
> drive.
Gad, yes. Even when you've banished that idiot pooch (I LIKE
dogs; but that thing is an insult to all canines), it still
stinks. The layout is all wrong (rule one of screen design: DON'T
make people scroll right and left; but unless you've got a super
wide screen, that's what you have to do with that idiotic
layout), and the narrowest target you can set is a whole drive.
And on at least one box it didn't find a file that was definitely
there (found it by going to a command prompt and using "FIND";
but one of the few places where a GUI is preferable to the
command line is in searching for files). Now, granted, that
system is seriously compromised and has to be wiped and
reinstalled, but still...


Google Desktop and other internet-based search engines raise
> privacy concerns. I'm considering trying Copernic, a well-reviewed
> standalone search engine. Has anyone on the list used it?
>
>     Lynn Brenner
>     718 855 2179
>
>
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Patricia M. Godfrey
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