Lucene Desktop

Lucene Desktop is a lightweight software application developed specifically for helping you perform searches on your desktop. This tool comes in handy especially for those users who have their screens crowded with various shortcuts to programs, documents, games, or other types of files. It can be deployed on all Windows versions out there.

You can drop Lucene Desktop on USB flash drives or other portable devices so you can carry it with you all the time. Plus, you may run it straight from the storage device without having to possess administrative privileges.

You can quickly access the tool’s interface with a double-click on the executable file because you do not have to go through an installation process. Since it does not leave remnants in your Windows registry and create additional setup items, you may get rid of it by deleting the files that you have downloaded from the Internet.

You can find Lucene Desktop running quietly in the system tray without disturbing your work with annoying popup messages or other types of notifications. You can get access to its configuration settings by right-clicking on its tray icon. There’s no support for a help manual so you need to experiment a little bit with the dedicated parameters in order to understand how the utility works.

The application offers you the possibility to index the files present on your desktop in the background or manually trigger the index process.

What’s more, you are allowed to set up the index folder where data is stored, display errors, specify the idle threshold (in minutes), configure the re-index time interval (in minutes), store full text in index, as well as clear or optimize the index.

Other important configuration settings worth being mentioned enable you to create a list with the folders that you want to index, enter the maximum number of the file size, as well as index emails.

Lucene Desktop comes packed with several handy features for helping you look for certain items on your desktop, and can be configured by rookies and professionals alike.