Hi all. I need to find a Search engine for my computer hard drive

[truedelphi]

The one that came bundled with my machine is very senstivie - any time I search for any term that has more than seven or eight entries and the whole search crasheds out.

Also don't recommend any freebies, they seem to add cookies and other things.

I want to pay for a decent search program.

They have to be out there. I get disgusted because my Old WIndows 95 coputer has a search program
that has listed up to 19,999 entries and doesn't crash! But of course, Micro$oft being Micro$oft, I can't simply transfer that over to the newer Windows XP computer.

[RoyGBiv]

1. Huh? What are you using that crashes?

Unless you're using some really buggy software, that happening would suggest to me some other sort of problem.

In any case, you know XP has the same kind of search feature 95 has, don't you? START > Search Or is that what's crashing? As I said, buggy software. :-)

If you want something slicker, I flatly refuse to recommend any commercial hard drive search client. I only know of one; it costs $100 and works no better than the free counterparts and is geared more toward large companies. It has features you would *never* use.

Try Google Desktop or Copernic. (I don't use either, FWIW, because I use a simple CLI command on my Linux system or Beagle when I feel like it, but I have used them.)

Free software, particularly software covered under the GPL or some variant, is no more likely to come bundled with malware than commercial software. Now, you do have to be careful of those "free downloads." That should often be taken literally. No one will charge you to download the package, but after that, all bets are off. You may not have to pay anything to use the software, but it'll have some sort of malware or other annoyance bundled in its installer.

[truedelphi]

2. Self delete as it is duplicate

[truedelphi]

3. Thanks for the info. Now what I do is START > Search

And then if the entry has more than seven or eight matches it crashes out.

It has been this way ever since the machine was plugged in. From Day One.

I tried Copernic and my computer got very sloggy until I uninstalled.

I will try Google Desktop. Hadn't ever heard of it.