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    Need a better Desktop Search tool (with a perpetual license) - replacing X1

    Hello everyone, I’m looking for recommendations for a desktop search application to replace X1 Search on my Surface Laptop 7 running Windows 11 (64 bit) on an ARM processor. REQUIREMENTS: Indexed Searches – I need a tool that builds an index to allow fast, efficient searches, rather than...
  2. Windows search bar: The one stop for answers, now with Bing Visual Search

    Every day, we have questions. Search engines, apps, digital voice assistants, or phones are usually our go-to places to find answers. You may already know that you can use Link Removed – found on your PC taskbar – to find things like an app, setting, or a file you’ve been working on. But did...
  3. Windows 10 making windows 10 desktop search use google instead of bing

    i am setting up a laptop for my 6 son who uses google and trying to make it where the desktop searches uses google instead of bing Also how can i place the google search on win10 Home desktop?
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    Windows 7 Where is Macromed folder

    Where is Macromed folder on win7 Hi folks, AMD Phenom II x4 955 Onboard RAM 8G I have Win7 and Windows Server 2008 running here, both 64bit, as VM (guest) of KVM (virtualizer) and co-existing with other 4 Linux servers (64bit version). All of them are working without problem. The only...
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 search - Doesn't search entire index

    Hello, I'm new to this forum but an experienced user of windows systems. Recently i started to have this strange problem with windows desktop search: When trying to search the entire index, not a specific location on the disk or inside MS Outlook, there are no results what so ever. Take a look...
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    Windows 7 Search/index network drives??

    Win7 takes a giant leap backward-- you can't index network drives! XP's desktop search did this fine. Googling shows Vista had a patch to fix this-- but not Windows 7. I tried loading my networked music in Windows Media Center, which makes it show up in my Music Library, but it's still not...