Windows users have the choice between several desktop search tools. Windows Search for instance comes preinstalled with the operating system. There are other popular programs like Google Desktop Search but also smaller faster alternatives such as Everything or Locate.
Puggle is another third party desktop search utility that is offered as a portable version and an installer. The software creates an index of the file structure of the computer system on its first start and will update that index whenever it discovers new files that have been added or modified afterwards.
The user can customize the indexing options of the desktop search tool. It is possible to change the index directory path, add or remove folders or hard drives that should be indexed, change indexing options to include or exclude thumbnails and text information and specify the file types that should be indexed.
The search form at the top provides the search capabilities of Puggle which can be further filtered by category. The search results are displayed with the file name, path to the file on the local computer system and thumbnail and text previews if that option has been enabled.
A double-click on an entry will load the file in the default program viewer for that file type.
Puggle has a few flaws that become obvious after some usage. It will for instance display only ten results per page which can become tiresome if lots of results are displayed. Another problem is that there is no option to add file types to the list of files that can be searched by the desktop search software.
Both the installer and the portable version of Puggle can be downloaded from the developer’s website at the project hosting website Sourceforge.
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