I tried X1 (and the Yahoo version of the same), it was definitely very impressive when it comes to relevance and speed (in fact, PC Magazine had recently voted it as the Editors choice) but I was not comfortable with the UI, it was a bit “Old”. Other than ability to search IE History there is nothing major that I was missing in MSN search, anyways just for a change I was looking at alternatives. Comparing with Google, what I liked in MSN was mainly two things – 1) It runs perfectly under non-admin users as well, 2) The ability to double-click on an email shown in results and easily have the email opened in Outlook. By then MSN Toolbar Desktop Search came and I have been using till yesterday. Quickly I had to remove it, because it required Administrative privileges and my normal userID doesn’t have that permission for security reasons. Though I missed the ability to conveniently put filter criterias (From Date, To Date, From a sender, etc.) like in Lookout, I should say it was impressive. The speed with which the results came back at you was amazing. Though I liked Lookout, when Google launched their beta desktop search, I downloaded and tried it. Once I started using a Desktop search, I became slightly complacent in following this rule, but anyways that is not my story today. Within this partition, I keep the files in meaningful folders that normally go by the year (2001, 2002, etc.) inside each categories – main folders (Photos, Softwares, Emails, Documents, etc.). This way I need to backup only one partition and will get back all my stuffs – emails, files, favourites, etc. I normally keep my data files in a seperate partition (D:\) which is different from my OS partitions. I quickly realized I can also have it index by Data partition in my hard drive, which really helps in finding stuffs especially if you have GBs of Data and the files go back several years in time. I instantly started seeing it benefits, with the ability to find emails accurately and that too in seconds (unlike minutes or hours that Outlook otherwise takes). Though Copernic and X1 have been there around for years, the need for this became clear only with Google entering the arena and Microsoft announcing similar capabilities in their Longhorn OS.Īlmost a year back, I started using Lookout – which is being offered free from MSN Sandbox by Microsoft. You can’t live without a desktop search utility installed now.
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