Copernic Desktop Search indexeert onder andere de tekst van documenten, webpagina's en e-mails en de metatags van muziek- en videobestanden op de computer en stelt de gebruiker in staat te zoeken door al deze gegevens. Daarnaast kan er ook op het internet worden gezocht naar verschillende bestanden. De complete lijst met mogelijkheden is op deze pagina te raadplegen. De ontwikkelaars van Copernic Technologies hebben onlangs versie 1.63 de deur uitgedaan met de volgende aanpassingen:
New Features:Other Improvements/Changes:
- Indexing of OpenOffice.org (1.1 and 2.x) and StarOffice (7.x and 8.x) files, including text documents, spreadsheets and presentations (requires Internet Explorer 6 or later) (1.63)
- New Internet Explorer toolbar for desktop and Web searches
- New Firefox toolbar for desktop and Web searches
- Completely redesigned deskbar category selection window for better usability
- New "Pause indexing when running on battery power" option for laptop users
- New shortcut key to open the application main window from any other application (default key combination is Windows Key + C)
- Indexing of all non-password-protected Outlook Express identities (rather than only the default identity) (1.61)
- Toolbar now available for Firefox 1.5 (1.63)
- "The Web" searches are now performed in a new default browser window
- Default delay before resuming the indexing process is now 2 minutes of idle computer time instead of 30 seconds
- Enhanced visual definition of the last used category in the deskbar category selection window (1.61)
- Various improvements to MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, PDF and RTF file handlers (1.61)
- Miscellaneous usability and performance improvements (1.6, 1.61, 1.63)