Copernic Desktop Search is a desktop search utililty for the Microsoft Windows family of operating systems. It is designed to allow the user to instantly find a wide variety of items including documents, pictures, music, videos, e-mails, contacts, browser bookmarks/favourites and entries in the Internet browser history on the computer, external drives and network shares.

Overview

The function of Copernic Desktop Search is to perform an instant search across your entire computer not only on the names of the items, but also on the contents and metadata of these items. The first time this is run an initial index is created, that can take up to several hours depending the amount of items to be indexed but this is a one-time event. As items are added, changed or removed from your computer, Copernic Desktop Search makes incremental changes in the background using idle system resources. This solution for searching is in contrast to Windows XP's built-in search function which scans whole files instead of a list, unless Windows Indexing Service is turned on.

For a better understanding, consider this analogy: If one is trying to find a chapter, or a phrase used within the books in a library, Unless Windows Indexing Service is turned on, Windows XP's search will look through all the books in the library, whereas Copernic Desktop scans the card catalogue.

Features

File types and programs currently supported are listed below.

E-Mail

Mozilla Thunderbird (versions: 1.0 or later)

Outlook (versions: 2000, XP, 2003, 2007)

Outlook Express (versions: 5.x, 6.x, including all non-password protected OE identities)

Outlook Express Electronic Mail (EML)

Eudora (versions: 5.0 or later)

Files

Metadata are indexed for the following file formats:

Microsoft Word documents (DOC) (versions: 6.0, 95 (7.0), 97, 98 (Mac), 2000, XP, 2003, 2007)

Microsoft Excel spreadsheets (XLS) (versions: 5.0, 95 (7.0), 97, 2000, XP, 2003, 2007)

Microsoft PowerPoint presentations (PPS, PPT)(versions: 97, 2000, XP, 2003, 2007)

Adobe PDF documents (versions: 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5)

WordPerfect documents (WPD, WPF, WP) (versions: 5.0, 5.1 (not Far East versions), 5.2 (not Far East versions), 5.x (Windows), 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)

OpenOffice.org documents (ODT, OTT, ODM, OTH, ODS, OTS, ODP, OTP) (versions: 1.1, 2.0)

StarOffice documents (SXW, STW, SXC, STC, SXI, STI) (versions: 7.0, 8.0)

Microsoft Rich Text Format (RTF)

Unicode Text files (TXT)

Active Server Page documents (ASP)

C Code/Program files (C)

C++ Code/program files (CPP)

C# .NET Source files (CS)

Comma-Separated Variables files (CSV)

Header file (H)

Assembler language, Active Server Include file, Include file (various), Internet Connection file (used by ISPs) (INC)

Initialization/Configuration file (INI)

Java Source Code files (JAVA)

Pascal Source Code files (PAS)

XML Stylesheet (XSL)

Hypertext Markup Language documents (HTML, XHTML)

Extensible Markup Language documents (XML)

ASCII Text files (ASC)

ANSI documents (ANS)

PHP Script (PHP)

Log File (LOG)

UCS-2 Unicode documents (with some boundaries)

UTF8 documents (with some boundaries)

File name is indexed for the following file formats:

Gzip Compressed archive (GZ)

Compressed Archive File (ZIP)

Windows Help file (HLP)

WinRAR Compressed archive (RAR)

Macromedia Flash Format file (SWF)

Tape Archive file (TAR)

Visio Drawing documents (VSD)

OpenOffice.org Draw File (SXD)

MHTML Document (MHT)

Music

Metadata are indexed for the following file formats:

iTunes Audio files (M4P, AAC)

MPEG Audio Stream, Layer II (MP2)

MPEG Audio Stream, Layer III (MP3)

MPEG-4 Audio Layer (M4A)

Windows Media Audio file (WMA)

Windows Waveform sound/Audio (WAV, WAVE)

Ogg Vorbis Codec Compressed WAV file (OGG)

MP3 PlayList File (M3U)

WinAmp MPEG PlayList File (PLS)

File name is indexed for the following file types:

RealMedia Media file (RA, RAM, RMM, RPM)

Musical Instrument Digital Interface file (MIDI)

And many others, including: .aa, .acp, .aif, .aifc, .aiff, .au, .cda, .cdda, .m4b, .mka, mpga, .rmi, .sd2, .snd, .wax,

Pictures

Metadata are indexed for the following file formats:

Graphics Interchange Format (GIF)

JPEG Format (JPE, JPEG, JPG )

Exchangeable Image File Format (EXIF)

File name is indexed for the following file formats:

Windows Bitmap Graphics (BMP)

Portable (Public) Network Graphic (PNG)

Photoshop Format (PSD)

QuickTime Image (QTI, QTIF)

Tagged Image Format file (TIF, TIFF)

X Window Bitmap Graphic (XBM)

Windows Icon (ICO)

and many others, including: .cgm, .dib, .jfif, .mac, .pct, .pcx, .pic, .pict, .pnt, .pntg, .rp

Videos

Metadata are indexed for the following file formats:

MPEG Video Files (MPE, MPEG, MPG, MPS, MPV, MPV2)

MPEG-4 Video Files (MP4)

Windows Media Video Files (WMV)

Microsoft Audio Video Interleaved (AVI)

QuickTime Movie (MOV)

File name is indexed for the following file formats:

Microsoft Windows Media metafile (WVX)

Data Interchange Format (DIF)

RealMedia Videos (RAM)

Matroska Video Stream (MKV)

Ogg Vorbis Compressed Video File (OGM)

and many others, including: .3g2, .3gp, .asf, .asx, .dv, .IVF, .m1v, .m2v, .m4e, .mp2v, .mpa, .qt, .rv, .wm, .wmp, .wmx

Favourites/Bookmark

Internet Shortcut (.URL files)

Internet Explorer (versions: 5.0 or later)

Mozilla Firefox (version: 1.0)

Mozilla (version 1.0 or later)

Netscape (versions: 6.x, 7.x, 8.x)

History

Internet Shortcut (.URL files)

Internet Explorer (versions: 5.0 or later)

Mozilla Firefox (version: 1.0)

Mozilla (version 1.0 or later)

Netscape (versions: 6.x, 7.x, 8.x)

Contacts

Outlook (versions: 2000, XP, 2003, 2007 - including Exchange Server)

Outlook Express/Windows Mail (versions: 5.x, 6.x)

Mozilla Thunderbird (versions: 1.0 or later)

Windows Address Book (versions: 98, Me, NT, 2000, XP, Vista)

History

Version History

Version 2.2 - Build 32 - November 12, 2007

Enhanced Office 2007 indexing

Enhanced Favorites and History indexing

Improved "Clear index and reindex all" feature

Files without extension now indexed when adding "*.*" in the file extension list

Fixed installation and updating issues under Vista

Fixed issues with Outlook Express actions

Multiple Deskbar tweaks

Other stability and performance tweaks

Version 2.1.1 - Build 3007 - July 27, 2007

Added multiple deployment options for system administrators (through GPO)

Fixed ZIP archive indexing issues

Fixed issues with dual monitor setups

Version 2.1 - Build 2569 - May 23, 2007

Full compatibility with Windows Vista

Support for Windows Mail (Windows Vista's email program)

Support for Microsoft Office 2007 documents (requires Office 2007 to be installed)

Version 2.02 - Build 2526 - December 18, 2006

Toolbar now compatible with Firefox 2.0

Improved previewing of plain text email messages

Improved plug-in support

Fixed index update issues with non-permanently connected network drives

Other stability and performance tweaks

Version 2.01 - Build 2514 - October 14, 2006

Hitting “Enter” in the deskbar no longer launches a Web search (tip: Ctrl+Enter opens the main CDS window)

Spanish and German versions now available

Internet Explorer toolbar load time reduced (particularly for IE7)

Fixed issue that sometimes made the “My Content” page appear blank

Other stability and performance tweaks

Version 2.0 - Build 2502 - September 19, 2006

Initial release of Copernic Desktop Search 2.