RE: Survey sez: your favorite local-drive search tool

["McLauchlan, Kevin" <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com>]

Richard Mateosian said:

> Anything you use will take forever without an index. Windows has a
> background indexing feature. You used to be able to turn it off,
> because it annoyingly ran the hard disk all the time. In recent
> versions it's subtler, and I think it's on by default.

I'm still on XP, so it would be an older version of their indexer 
on my machine. I might even have turned it off due to the constant 
cranking... which was not only a source of annoying little noise, 
but a drag on performance, that never went away. 

I limp along with the Windoze search, but miss things like the 
ability to specify the partitions to include ... or exclude. 

Even a search parameter as simple as "everything local except C:" 
would be a big help. 

I installed the trial of xplorer2 yesterday, so I'll see how I 
get along with that over the next few days.

I did try Google desktop search a few years ago, and can't 
remember why I didn't want to keep it.  I might give it another 
whirl. I just can't shake the nagging suspicion that the company 
that wants to own the world by indexing it is somehow snooping 
into proprietary content if I let them in...  but then, I 
could say the same about Microsoft.  But the philosophical 
difference is that Microsoft-anything is mandated by my 
employer, while Google is not. 

Linux... grep...   :-)


 - K



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