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Google Desktop is a free tool available for download from the Google web site. This powerful instrument is intended as a cross-platform solution that allows you to make searches on your local PC the same way as you search the WEB with Google. But what is good in general cannot be absolutely perfect for every particular case. Halftone Search from Trietech is a Google Desktop add-on that offers some advanced Google Desktop functionality to MS Windows users.
Google Desktop uses an HTML interface. It's fine for the net, but on your local desktop you would certainly prefer an application that uses native Windows controls. Halftone Search solves this problem by offering you an alternative Google Toolbar UI. With the Halftone Search, you can highlight search terms in the results, customize fonts, etc. The program can extract compressed files on-the-fly and show their contents. It also provides several ways to make searches. You can choose from a pop-up menu in your Windows tray, a form or a dockable toolbar in the main program window.
In addition to the interface enhancements, Halftone Search also extends the Google Desktop search engine itself. As you may know, Google Desktop uses "drivers" to collect searchable data from your local files.
"Drivers" are plugins that allow it to understand specific file formats.
Halftone Search installs drivers for compressed file archives (rar, zip, arj, tar, gz, bz2, etc.), chm files, MS Help v.2 files (just imagine a searchable index of all the help files on your disks), plain-text files with unicode support, web archives (mht) plus all the drivers you may have installed by MSN Desktop Search. With Halftone Search you can also manage all the installed drivers.
With all of the above in mind, we are quickly driven to the conclusion that Halftone Search is a must-have add-on for every Google Desktop user
with a Windows powered PC.
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IMAware is a program for Windows to quickly scan your computer for instant messaging programs. IMAware is for parents and business that want to know what instant messengers are installed on their computers. To provide faster results IMAware can take advantage of Windows Desktop Search if it is available.
Halftone Search for Google Desktop: http://www.trietech.com/files/hts_setup.exe
IMAware: http://www.zemericks.com/software/imaware_setup.exe |
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LCleaner is a FREE tool to easily free up disk space from temporary, unwanted files, and clean system registry from unneeded registry keys. It is absolutely free and does not contain adware or spyware functions.
LCleaner can clear system temporary files, user temporary files, Windows log files, Windows memory dump files, recycle bin, recent documents list, run list MRU, common dialogs MRU, typed URLs and more.
LCleaner has a fast search engine based on LUA scripts. Functionality can be extended with your own scripts. LUA is an easy scripting language, just take a look on example script, or scripts in scripts folder inside LCleaner folder. In On-Line Help section you can find all the information you need to start write your own scripts.
Main Features: Delete System Temporary, User Temporary files; Delete Windows Logs, Memory Dump, Prefetch files; Clean Google Toolbar search history; Clean Internet Explorer typed URLs; Clean Common dialog MRUs, Run history, Recent documents history; CleanMap Network drive MRUs; Write your own scripts using LUA scripting language, to clear specific items.
LCLeaner: http://www.585soft.com/Download/LCleaner.exe
PCMesh Internet and Disk Cleanup: http://www.pcmesh.com/pidctrial.exe
PCMesh Internet and Disk Cleanup is a utility to remove user activity tracks and to clean the hard disk from junk files.
Windows logs user activity in several locations of which the most important ones are:
- index.dat files which log user's Internet activity such as the addresses of visited websites, a copy of those sites and received cookies.
- UserAssist registry key which logs local activities such as files which have been opened.
Windows provides no functionality to clear those logs.
Other areas where user activity tracks are left include files searched, documents opened, memory contents saved to pagefile (swapfile), etc.
PCMesh Internet Cleanup clears all of those tracks with a single click.
Furthermore PCMesh Internet Cleanup provides disk cleanup functionality to remove Windows and Internet temporary files, Java cache and other junk files.
Another security functionality contained is files shredding which means to overwrite files a number of times and finally delete them. Users can use file shredding to destroy their sensitive files securely. |
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