

                          FindItNow! V. 1.25


Thank you for downloading FindItNow!  FindItNow! is probably
the fastest disk index search utility available.  And combined
with the EMail, Text, and Notes search options, FindItNow!
is capable of finding just about any of the important data
stored on your hard drive.

A couple of points which are helpful to new users:

   * Before your first time searching, FindItNow! needs to
     build an index of your data (hard drive, email, etc.).
     This index records where all the words occur
     making searches very very fast.  So while it may take
     a few minutes to initially build your index(s), 
     searches will be almost instantaneous.  FindItNow! saves
     the indexes it generates and they may easily be reopened
     saving you from having to reindex every time you want
     to conduct a search.  FindItNow! uses the Onix full text
     indexing and retrieval engine to do the indexing and searching
     which is one of the fastest indexing engines in the industry.

  *  You can quickly open indexes you have opened in the past
     by using the drop down lists on the search pages.  Index names
     are stored each time you close FindItNow! allowing you to reopen
     an index days, weeks, or months later with only a mouse click.

  *  You can reload past search queries by using the drop down lists
     on the Text, EMail, and Notes search pages.  After selecting
     a seach query, you can edit it or execute it by pressing ENTER
     or the Search button.  The past 15 searches you have performed
     for the EMail, Text, or Notes indexes are saved each time
     you close FindItNow! and are reloaded into the drop down lists
     each time FindItNow! is restarted.

  *  Occasionally you will want to rebuild your hard drive and email
     indexes.  This will help keep the index current with your hard
     drives contents or the status of your email mailbox.  Be sure to
     reindex your email if you compact your mailboxes.  (When email
     programs compact their mailboxes, this is when the deleted messages
     are actually removed.)


INSTALLING FINDITNOW!

Simply run the program "setup.exe" which is in this same
directory.


If you have any suggestions on improvements or features you would like
to see, please feel free to drop us a note at: pollarda@lextek.com

Thank you again for downloading FindItNow!


   The FindItNow! Development Team




Recent Changes:

Version 1.28   -   Fixed several minor bugs including one involving the
                   print button not always being activated.  Several other
                   bugs were fixed.  In addition, now past indexes are
                   opened up automatically on startup.  This facilitates
                   easier searching as indexes don't have to opened up by
                   the user unless they want to switch indexes.  Various
                   internal workings have been tweaked to start getting
                   things ready for the next major release where some
                   cool things are planned.


Version 1.25    -  Created an "Erase Search Results" button which some users
                   want.  (Even though searching erases your previous
                   results.) Added the ability to automatically add the
                   appropriate file suffixes to new index file names if
                   they were not entered by the user.



Version 1.2     -- The disk index creation /  dialog was reorganized
                   to make it more intuitive.  Also, warnings were
                   included so that users don't accidently try to
                   build an index without a filename or directories
                   to index.

                   A bug was fixed in the retrieval engine which caused
                   it to overlook some words during lookup.


Version 1.1     -- Several small annoying bugs were fixed including
                   fixing the drop down menus so that they opened the
                   indexes properly and loaded on startup.




