On Nov 13, 9:26*am, "Olórin"
wrote:
"Daave" wrote in message

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ship wrote:
WindowsXP Pro
msOffice 2003
Xara Xtreme Pro
MindManager
FreeMind
...} all latest versions

Hi

Can anyone recommend a utility for searching my local WindowsXP PC?

I need to do text searching across msOffice2003 files (e.g. Outlook,
Excel, Word).

(Optionally, I would IDEALLY also like to be able to search files
from: Xara Xtreme Pro, Mindjet's MindManager, FreeMind, plus HTML, PDF
files... but this is not a deal breaker.)

I have tried
- WindowXP's search
== horrible. I have uninstalled it and use the previous version -
which is very slow but more accurate.
* * * Fails to do outlook files.

- GoogleDesktop
== Initially I was impressed, but now keeps failing to spider things.
Terrible at handling archivals of emails.

- Copernic Desktop (v3.2.1)
== Takes literally *days* to spider/re-spider. Clunky & processor
hungry.
* * * Not good at handling archivals of emails.

All I need something as powerful as Google websearch, but that runs
across my own PC !

For example exact phrase matching (e.g. by using double quotes around
a phrase)
For example negative matching - i.e. excluding certain phrases

I am becoming increasingly desperate!!

- Any thoughts?

http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/

Seconded. Always one of the first things I put on a new XP setup.- Hide quoted text -

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Yes I have just installed Agent Ransack. I agree it's quite impressive
at what it does.
BUT
a) It doesn't seem to do emails (i.e. Outlook2003 .PST files)
b) It doesn't seem to pre-index things first and is that relatively
slow.

A good thought and useful if the likes of Google desktop are failing
me...
....but not ideal.

Ship