InSight Desktop Search is a proprietary desktop search

Desktop search

Desktop search is the name for the field of search tools which search the contents of a user's own computer files, rather than searching the Internet...

 application that runs on Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...

. It is written in Visual Basic .NET

Visual Basic .NET

Visual Basic .NET , is an object-oriented computer programming language that can be viewed as an evolution of the classic Visual Basic , which is implemented on the .NET Framework...

 and has a widget-like user interface while in standby mode.

InSight searches for the user's files or folders using basic information like extension, file name, and location. Results are displayed as dynamically updated list.

Features

• Disk indexing
  Index (search engine)
  Search engine indexing collects, parses, and stores data to facilitate fast and accurate information retrieval. Index design incorporates interdisciplinary concepts from linguistics, cognitive psychology, mathematics, informatics, physics, and computer science...
  
  
• Sub-search that allows dynamic filtering of the search results
• Ability to search MP3
  MP3
  MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a patented digital audio encoding format using a form of lossy data compression...
  
   files based on ID3
  ID3
  ID3 is a metadata container most often used in conjunction with the MP3 audio file format. It allows information such as the title, artist, album, track number, and other information about the file to be stored in the file itself....
  
   tag information, and also play the same within the application itself
• Ability to export MP3 search results as ".M3U
  M3U
  M3U is a computer file format that stores multimedia playlists. It is supported by many applications.An M3U file is a plain text file that specifies the locations of one or more media files. Each line carries one specification...
  
  " playlists
• Preview mode that offers quick information about the contents of the files
• Wikipedia
  Wikipedia
  Wikipedia is a free, web-based, collaborative, multilingual encyclopedia project supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its 20 million articles have been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world. Almost all of its articles can be edited by anyone with access to the site,...
  
   search
• Quick Launch shortcuts

See also

• List of desktop search engines
• Incremental find
  Incremental find
  In computing, incremental search, incremental find or real-time suggestions is a user interface interaction method to progressively search for and filter through text. As the user types text, one or more possible matches for the text are found and immediately presented to the user...
  
  

External links

• InSight Desktop Search website