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f0dder:
Curt: why would you limit windows update, though? It's not one of the heaviest CPU eaters, and it's single-threaded anyway...

xtabber:
askSam is a freeform database, not DTS software (which means that it imports text into a database file rather than indexing it in place)  but it provides much more powerful search capabilities than DTS software can. In this respect it is more of a researcher's tool than a file finder, which makes it more suitable for my purposes. It also imports from a wide variety of file formats and is particularly good at creating searchable email archives from email programs, which seems to be the main target promoted by most DTS software.

Unfortunately, it is also quite expensive -- the professional editon, which includes indexing, normally costs $395, but it is now on sale until December 12 for $99.95. I have posted the details and link in the software deals section.

Curt:
The best or not, I don't know, but coming up Tuesday 23 DEC ‘08, Find Desktop Professional is on (a modest) sale at Bits du Jour: Deal Price: $62.50 You Save: 50% List Price: $125.00

http://www.bitsdujour.com/software/find-desktop-professional/



Find Desktop Professional

Create a Searchable Archive of All of Your Documents

(blah blah)...  But, with a little help from Find Desktop Professional , you'll be able to distill all of your documents, both electronic and hardcopy, into one easy-to-use, searchable archive.

With Find Desktop Professional, you'll be able to conduct lightning-quick searches (even using Boolean operators) through the text of all of your electronic documents, including Word, Excel, PDF and ZIP archive files. Find Desktop Professional will index all of your email messages and attachments and include them in the query results, highlighting your search terms (and their synonyms) for easy reference. Find Desktop Professional even operates across a network!

If you have a large archive of hardcopy paperwork, Find Desktop Professional will save you from the torture of a thousand papercuts! Find Desktop Professional works with your TWAIN-compatible scanner to scan your hardcopy documents into electronic form, and automatically uses OCR to make every page searchable! You can even add annotations to scanned documents! Plus, everything that comes up in a Find Desktop Professional search result can be copied and pasted into any Windows application.

Find Desktop Professional not only eases your path to a paperless office, it opens the door to a whole new way of performing research in your documents archive!-Bits du Jour
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http://www.finddesktop.com/Features.htm (flash)

Darwin:
Interesting, Curt  :up: It looks similar to dtSearch, which I have installed on my XP machine. I won't be checking this out (have Archivarius, X1, and dtSearch installed along with SearchGT, Search Everything, LineByter, and FileLocator Pro, not to mention a host of GREP tools and File Managers that search as well...) but am interested in any real-life experiences anyone might have to report.

Curt:
The best or not, I don't know, but coming up Tuesday 23 DEC ‘08, Find Desktop Professional is on (a modest) sale at Bits du Jour: Deal Price: $62.50 You Save: 50% List Price: $125.00

http://www.bitsdujour.com/software/find-desktop-professional/

http://www.bitsdujour.com/software/find-desktop-professional/notify/-Curt (December 18, 2008, 09:15 AM)
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I was reading about the features, when I saw this:

Indexing speed:
1Gb per Hour (this value can be influenced by Computer performance)

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- and my interest disappeared...

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