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Find And Run Robot / Re: Find&Run Robot owns desktop search
« on: September 17, 2005, 11:19 PM »
Thanks for the reply, Mouser. You are a coding genius. The feature requests for F&R v2 sound great, I'm looking forward to it. I will post additional reviews over F&R when the opportunities present themselves, and would recommend others who use the program do the same to promote this excellent program to others. Comparison to MSN, Google, and Yahoo desktop search was maybe slightly unfair because they index file content, whereas F&R searches files names. Nonetheless, since I use filenames to summarize file content, searching through file names quickly is the ideal search app for me, and it is still my contention that F&R beats the pants off of all other desktop search apps. There is a similar program, called Instant File Name Search ( http://www.sowsoft.c...ad/InstantSearch.zip ), which I had used earlier but ultimately gave it up because it relied on indexing (I hated having to wonder if the last indexing occured after the addition of new files I was searching for) and because it consumed hundreds of MBs of working set memory when it would load the huge index it would create off my harddrive. F&R does not suffer from these problems and I predict I'll be using this software for a very long time. I still can't get over how fast it is. This is the perfect program for me for searching for files, and I suspect that people who like speed without bloat and huge index files consuming their hardrives will truly appreciate this program.