Copernic Desktop Search 1.5 Beta

CDS highlights found search terms in user-definable colors; you can jump to the next occurrence of a term in the preview pane by clicking a button or pressing a key combination.

If you wish, you can get a detailed status view while CDS is indexing your files, emails, etc.

The optional CDS deskbar installs right in the Windows taskbar; you can also invoke CDS by double-clicking its icon in the system tray.

The search window in CDS offers filmstrip-style preview for pictures and displays detailed information in a floating window.

CDS displays one content type at a time, but also identifies and links to "hits" in other content areas.

For each content type, CDS offers type-specific fields that can be used to refine the search.

CDS indexes your Outlook, Outlook Express, or Thunderbird contacts; one click will send a new message or search for messages from the current contact.

You can preview found videos in a Media Player control within CDS.

CDS can index and search your browser favorites and history and preview them with keywords highlighted.

You can also search the web from within CDS, or specifically search for hits in images, news, or shopping.

The General options tab lets you control whether CDS displays all possible items when the search field is blank; here you can also set your own choices for highlight colors.

CDS identifies which of its supported email clients are installed and lets you pick and choose the folders to be indexed.

You can specify the folders on local or remote drives that CDS should index, and optionally limit indexing to specific file types on a per-folder basis.

CDS can index browser favorites and history for Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Firefox, or Netscape.

The CDS deskbar is optional, and can be configured using the Integration tab in the Options dialog.

CDS indexes emails and documents when they're changed and also refreshes its indexes on a schedule; you can configure it to throttle down indexing when the computer is busy.

Using the Advanced Options tab you can configure CDS to index all files by name, size, date/time and path, regardless of file type.