Google Desktop replacement

[Slott]

Hi all, someone at our company used google desktop to search for emails for quite a while (the guy gets hundreds of emails a day). Google stopped supporting google desktop, and when we upgraded the user to office (outlook) 2010, google desktop stopped tracking new emails. In addition he is using windows XP. Is there any replacement program that can be used to track/search emails in a similar fashion to what google desktop did? Thanks

[rezn0r]

Outlook 2010 breaks all kinds of things until the creators of everything broken catch up and fix them. That being said Windows Search should work with it, although I haven't tried it myself (I'm the only person on 2010 in my company, everyone else is still sitting at 2007), and I see all kinds of posts about it not working and different solutions to make it work. That might be worth looking into though. Good luck!

[SephYuyX]

Is there a reason their still on XP and not 7x64?
Thatll solve all your problems right there.

[Melena]

If it's a work environment they may have programs that don't run on 64bit or even Vista/7. Hell the coroner's office for the sheriff's department I worked for was still using a web based program that would only work in IE6 till they finally paid for an upgrade to the software. We also have a bunch of law enforcement programs that refuse to work in a 64bit environment, so Win 7 Pro 32 bit is what we have to stay at.

[Slott]

Correct, we do have many programs that only work on 32bit, and the cost of replacing them is around the range of 5000-7500 dollars per license. That being said, there's really no reason to upgrade to windows 7 for every computer, as it'd be expensive and time consuming. For our newer computers, we do get windows 7, but I do need a google desktop replacement in the meantime. Will try windows search

[Buffy]

Correct, we do have many programs that only work on 32bit, and the cost of replacing them is around the range of 5000-7500 dollars per license. That being said, there's really no reason to upgrade to windows 7 for every computer, as it'd be expensive and time consuming. For our newer computers, we do get windows 7, but I do need a google desktop replacement in the meantime. Will try windows search

You are probably aware of this, but xp support is ending in 2 years, so your company will need to look to do some updates if they want to stay current.

[SephYuyX]

That doesnt stop anyone though lol.
Plenty of top companies using NT4 and 2000 servers.

[Slott]

So, about that google desktop replacement...

[Tajin]

Try http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/downl...ils.aspx?id=23 maybe? never used it.

[DDochat]

This thread is kind of old I know.... I still think its good to give some alternatives to Google Desktop:
- Lookeen
- Copernic
- X1
- Everything

My personal recommendation is Lookeen. It started as an Outlook plugin but is a fully desktop tool since version 10 and has a nice free version. Similar to the Copernic lite version but with an infinite index.

Damian