You can save and find files in your computer hard drive more easily by using a desktop search engine. Most of the good ones are free, do not take up too much space, can search hundreds of different document types (video, photographs, music, contacts, e-mails, to name a few) and works with any computer system. This article gives a brief overview of desktop search (DTS) engines available. Try one out for free and simplify your life.
Finding Files a Problem?
Searching for a file in your computer and not finding it, or wasting minutes
or hours locating it, can be stressful and frustrating.
Stress-free saving and fast retrieval of files has challenged computer
software designers since the PC era dawned in the 1980s. Do you still remember
when a floppy disk’s capacity of a few hundred thousand bytes fixed the limit
of how many files we saved? Then as SUV-capacity hard drives came, the amount
of files we saved grew arithmetically until Internet use exploded in the 1990s.
Up to that point, the user-friendly drag-and-click folder system to manage
files was good enough. With a few mouse clicks, we learned to use icons and commands
to drag and save files. Folders organized logically made finding files easy.
The system worked until the new millennium, when the Web transformed the
computer into a giant storehouse of contacts, photographs, e-mails, music,
videos, and all kinds of documents.
The staggering volume of saved digital files made the drag and click,
file-and-folder system cumbersome, and searching for files started taking
longer. What complicated matters is the way several programs – for e-mail,
photo albums, contacts, and calendars – stored data. Getting the information
you need meant having to run separate programs, each with its own search
commands.
The Answer’s Here!
Google in 1998 made web search so fast that with a high-speed Internet
connection, finding information in the Web was faster than looking for files in
your hard drive. Using the same technology that mapped the Internet’s billions
of pages, Google, Yahoo!, and MSN developed search engines to find files in
your computer.
Desktop search, or DTS, engines help you find the information you need by
indexing your hard drive and make searching for files fast and easy. Just type
in a keyword and any file, of any type, with that information is found with
robot-like efficiency.
Helping you find files faster is just one way DTS will simplify your life.
On top of that:
No need to delete files. As
hard drives get bigger and prices go down, you can save and store as much
information as you want.
No need to organize your hard
drive into folders. DTS engines can find your files faster than you can
navigate through folders using the old drag-and-click system.
No need to memorize file
names. All you need is a keyword inside the file you are looking for, and
the DTS engine finds all the files in your drive with that word. Some DTS
engines can even search other computers in a network.