AimAtFile Fast File Search 4.0
Publisher's Description:
AimAtFile Fast File Search - AimAtFile is an effective way to find document files by their contents. It lets you search for files of many types: MS Office documents, HTML, PDF, plain text, media files and others on a desktop computer or in a network. The content search functionality is based on Microsoft Indexing Service included in Windows 2000/XP/2003. AimAtFile provides a document preview. You can see the contents of found documents without opening them in their editing programs.
Microsoft Indexing Service scans files in the background as a low-priority process and AimAtFile requests this index to return search results instantly. Unlike the most of third party file search utilities AimAtFile does not scan all files each time you try to find any file. Some of third party search tools use their own indexers. Windows already includes the native powerful Indexing Service so it is not necessary to install additional indexers into the system. The only thing you need is a right tool to query the built-in Indexing Service. AimAtFile Fast File Search is the tool.
AimAtFile Fast File Search allows to search network shared folders. So it gives an opportunity to search for documents in your corporate Local Area or Virtual Private Networks.
The program is easy to use. The interface is very intuitive. Run the program, type a query in the Query field, click Search and you will get a list of relevant documents. A query may be simple (just words that target files contain), a Boolean expression, or a more precise query written in the Indexing Service query language.
Latest Changes:
New result columns and query fields, New preview options, Group policy settings
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Latest User Reviews:
keen_coder
2007-04-02 18:01:04
Version: 4.0
Not the best
I found the application difficult to use.
Getting started was not as straight forward as I would have thought and the
interface was not as intuitive as I would have liked.
For example, specifying a folder field I would have thought would restrict
the search (or indexing and search) to that folder on the system.
Instead the results are returned from the entire file structure on all available hard drives.
I stopped using the application after about 15 minutes of trying to get it going.
I am sure that I could work through the help and get better results given enough time, but that is exactly what I am pressed for at the moment and the time I allocated to testing this product was well and truly wasted in trying to come to grips with the basic functionality.
Won't be pursuing this application.
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