I need a lightweight file search since window 7 search is a tremendous research hog

[EricB]

I tried copernic but I could not add the toolbar to the taskbar in windows 7

 

[S0ULphIRE]

Re: I need a lightweight file search since window 7 search is a tremendous research h

I'd be interested in an answer to this as well, I haven't found a decent indexer that I'm happy with yet.

 

[Yami]

Re: I need a lightweight file search since window 7 search is a tremendous research h

Google Desktop? Tried it for myself a while ago and it was alright.

 

[C0RR0SIVE]

Re: I need a lightweight file search since window 7 search is a tremendous research h

Google Desktop is the only thing that comes to mind, but, I find the windows 7 search to be very quick and accurate.

 

[EricB]

Re: I need a lightweight file search since window 7 search is a tremendous research h

until you realize how much faster windows 7 is by disabling the built in index search. the actual search is fast, but it slow windows 7 down

 

[Yami]

Re: I need a lightweight file search since window 7 search is a tremendous research h

until you realize how much faster windows 7 is by disabling the built in index search. the actual search is fast, but it slow windows 7 down

Agreed. I can't even remember the last time I used any search function in Win7; I don't know about any performance improvements by disabling it, but I can't think of any downside (unless you use the search regularly).

 

[EricB]

Re: I need a lightweight file search since window 7 search is a tremendous research h

I got 10 years and 3 terabyte of stuff so I need a simple search that can be accessed through the toolbar

 

[joelm3103]

Re: I need a lightweight file search since window 7 search is a tremendous research h

Just saying, maybe that 10 years and 3 terabytes is the reason it may be so slow? That's a lot of data there.

 

[C0RR0SIVE]

Re: I need a lightweight file search since window 7 search is a tremendous research h

That much data for any search system is gonna be a lot, high disk speed and a decent processor helps out a lot with that much data.

 

[EricB]

Re: I need a lightweight file search since window 7 search is a tremendous research h

most of the old stuff like the nero toolbar and google search wasn't resource hogs. copernic isn't either, but windows seven won't let it put a search bar on the taskbar