Often I've lost files here or there across different disk drives.  It is a pain to organize everything perfectly and using the search feature of Windows is not always that easy.  Well, a friend showed me the Google Desktop from http://desktop.google.com/.

I was impressed how easy it was to use and integrate into the Windows toolbar.  Now just by typing a few letters or words from a document I am presented with a list of documents to click on.  I think that this is particularly ideal for people who don't keep up to date with the latest computer technologies... it is very simple.

The installation requires indexing your documents (which can take a lot of time) but it sure seems to work a lot smoother than the integrated Microsoft search engine.  Additionally you can tell the Google Desktop to index only certain types of documents to make it even faster.