I’ve been thinking about whether I should install a desktop search facility on my machine. At the moment, it is fairly well-structured and after only a year I don’t have too much stuff on it. However, this is changing rapidly as my work levels ramp up, and I wonder if my taxonomy will be enough to remind me where everything is!
In the past, I’ve used Lookout (now part of Windows search), Google desktop, Copernic and X1 (now part of Yahoo desktop search I think). My problem with them is generally the same – they have a huge footprint on my memory (RAM) and really slow down my machine. Of thes I found that Copernic worked best i.e. found the most relevant results.
I’ve recently heard of another couple of apps called DK Finder and Locate32 which are meant to take up much less RAM. I’d be interested to see a decent list and comparison of the top apps in this area, enlarging and updating the one Pandia did some time ago. Anyone know whether this has been done (this year)? I found a matrix done by the Goebel group, but I would like more comparison on the features of each product, and of course – the amount of RAM taken up.
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