features of vista glance

Features
Here you will find the complete list of VistaGlance's features. To view these features in action please visit our screenshots gallery or view a brief tutorial. To download VistaGlance now click here.
VistaGlance is a revolutionary program with elements of artificial intelligence that gives you a wonderful ability to get documents you want or run programs you need within several seconds since you firstly think about them. VistaGlance utilizes results of original research in computer human interaction and human perception to increase efficiency of documents-related work up to 30 percents.
The core parts of VistaGlance are powerful file indexing engine and heuristic module based on fuzzy logic. Unlike other similar solutions, VistaGlance indexes average hard disk in several minutes. It needs to index your hard disk only once. After that, VistaGlance monitors and reflects all changes in your file system instantly. File indexing engine also works with removable media like USB-drives, CD and DVD disks, etc. Moreover, VistaGlance can index archives of tens different types and network (remote) drives. The search itself commonly takes less than one second even on large hard disk. The main task of heuristic module is to select the most appropriate files and take them at the top of Results List. VistaGlance calculates the overall relevance of each result depending on the string relevance, date and time of last access, usage frequency of exact this file and files of such type and a lot of secondary parameters. Consequently, you will find the needed file within first ten results in the most of queries.


Main features
*Quickly find the files you need as soon as you think about their names or attributes
*Use Deskbar, Explorer Toolbar or Floating Bar query fields for fast access
*Receive any file you queried less than in a second after you hit Enter *Quickly show and hide VistaGlance Deskbar with a single click on the system tray icon
*Quickly show and hide VistaGlance Floating Bar with a handy hot key *Search for all files, only pictures, videos, music, office documents or using custom filters Obtain file details, cut, copy, delete, drag&drop found files
*Add your own keywords to files using handy Explorer context menu extension


Keywords
*Apply unlimited number of keywords to files with Explorer context menu
*Use keywords in your search query
*Apply desired keyword to several files and folders at once
*Specify Favorite Keywords and apply them to files in one click


Queries
*Use parts of file names you remember rather than guess exact file name *Find files with given fuzzy name, exact name, or desired extension, or all files with given extension
*Use standard Windows wildcards (like * or ?) to power your search (Pro version only)
*Use both parts of file name and keywords in your query simultaneously *Use several words in your query
*Use minus queries like "search for files containing Name1 and Name2 and NOT containing Name3 and Name4"
*Use folder specification queries like "search for files containing Name and situated in folders containing FolderName1 or FolderName2"
*Open web sites and search in Google, Yahoo, MSN and Download.com right from query window


File Operations
*Move, copy and rename files
*Drag & Drop files to any locations or other programs
*Quickly view such file details as full path, system description, age, date of last access, size, etc.
* Open file’s parent folder and get the file you worked with highlighted *Limit query results to folders with given name or files with given extension


Indexing
*Extremely fast indexing (2-3 minutes on average PC)
*Extremely small index database size (5 - 20 MB only)
*Automatic reindexing using file system hooks (no performance loss at all)
* Removable drives indexing Correct work with old (Windows 98/ME) operating systems)
*Indexing inside archives (ZIP, RAR, SQZ, ZOO, GZIP, CAB, ARJ, PAK, ACE and TAR formats are supported)
*Full support of network (remote) drives Include and Exclude lists for indexing area fine tuning