Eddie,

I am glad you are enjoying Copernic - I certainly have no beef with it. If you prefer to use non-Microsoft software, I am sure Copernic will do the job - you are running Linux, right?

I myself have been a Windows user for years (and a software engineer to boot). In my experience, with computers, like with anything else, there is no such thing as a free lunch - very often, what seems like a perfectly innocuous and safe piece of free software ends up collecting your usage patterns, or info on the contents of your hard drive. I am not saying that Copernic does this - it may have been written by a perfectly altruistic person who wants to spend his life laboring towards the world peace and the betterment of humankind and their computing environment, while subsisting only on the rainwater and acorns which fall off the oak tree. However, even people like that eventually run out of steam, and you end up having dll conflicts and other things which start to fail for no expainable reason, forcing you to reinstall your OS. However, your lack of problems with Copernic is not in itself an assurance that it does not have hidden components aiming to harm your system. Not that Microsoft has not been guilty of similar faults, but they have mostly cleaned up their act, and most of their current software has quite a high quality.

Again, I know nothing about Copernic, and have no beef with it,per se. However, if one wants to use the tools already available to him, rather than download the new ones, and subjecting themselves to possible risks, Windows Indexing engine is it, and will be accessible the next time you use Windows Search tool right within the Windows Explorer.

Regards,
Alex