Can you recommend a good text search utility? (for WindowsXP, esp for Office2003)

I second agent ransack.
Very thorough and very definable.

"Jim" wrote in message
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AgentRansack ?



On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:15:06 -0800 (PST), ship
wrote:

WTF?
I am talking about searching my own LOCAL desktop machine - not about
searching
the Web.


Ship

On Nov 17, 3:47 am, "Hot-text" wrote:
Hmm I for Binging it!!
Windows for Windows.
Microsoft for Microsoft .
Sohttp://www.bing.comis by Microsoft Windows.
Look at this if you Google Houston # 1 Minpin you will not get it the
text
Title.
But Bing it and you gethttp://minpin.ww.com (Who title is Houston # 1
Minpin cam) orhttp://www.minpin.ath.cx (Who title is Houston # 1 Minpin)
so if a Title is just text then I would recommend Bing it........

"ship" wrote in message

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WindowsXP Pro
msOffice 2003
Xara Xtreme Pro
MindManager
FreeMind
...} all latest versions

Hi

Can anyone recommend a utility for searching my local WindowsXP PC?

I need to do text searching across msOffice2003 files (e.g. Outlook,
Excel, Word).

(Optionally, I would IDEALLY also like to be able to search files
from: Xara Xtreme Pro, Mindjet's MindManager, FreeMind, plus HTML, PDF
files... but this is not a deal breaker.)

I have tried
- WindowXP's search
== horrible. I have uninstalled it and use the previous version -
which is very slow but more accurate.
Fails to do outlook files.

- GoogleDesktop
== Initially I was impressed, but now keeps failing to spider things.
Terrible at handling archivals of emails.

- Copernic Desktop (v3.2.1)
== Takes literally *days* to spider/re-spider. Clunky & processor
hungry.
Not good at handling archivals of emails.

All I need something as powerful as Google websearch, but that runs
across my own PC !

For example exact phrase matching (e.g. by using double quotes around
a phrase)
For example negative matching - i.e. excluding certain phrases

I am becoming increasingly desperate!!

- Any thoughts?

Ship
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