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What is the currently best Desktop Search software?
Curt:
- is AstroGrep 'commandline' only?
Showing up to 10 lines from search result documents: :up:
rjbull:
Doh! I was/am talking about the Pro version :-[ I only recently purchased it and have not had much time to configure it... That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
-Darwin (April 27, 2008, 04:26 PM)
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:) That prompted me to go looking - it's there in Preferences -> Options, "Hide splash screen at start up."
rjbull:
AstroGrep http://astrogrep.sourceforge.net
This has a very handy "context lines" search option. There you can set how many lines will be shown above and below the search result.
-Shades (April 27, 2008, 06:39 PM)
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BareGrep Pro, which doesn't need .NET Framework 8) has "show hits in context," also simple highlighting, viz.:
Curt:
So, which program did he rip off this time?
Desktop Search Express
http://www.thepickapp.com/desktop_search_express.html
What is the currently best Desktop Search software?
rjbull:
So, which program did he rip off this time?
-Curt (May 20, 2008, 04:58 PM)
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???
Desktop Search Express
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Hmmm:
System Requirements:
Microsoft Windows 95/98/NT/ME/2000/XP operating system.
.NET Framework Version 1.1
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Win9x and .NET? I didn't think you could run .NET on Win9x?
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