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If you find that your operating system does not give you what you want, the Google Desktop might be what you are looking for.

http://desktop.google.com

Google Desktop includes a sidebar with a series of panels:

Email
News
Weather
Photos
Share prices
RSS and Atom feeds
Scratch Pad
Frequently used web pages and files
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System Monitor

As you would expect from Google, it provides a powerful search engine to work inside your computer.

Search Across Computers

This enables you to search your documents on all of your computers, very handy if you use several computer.

You will need a Google Account to search across different machines which all need the Desktop on them. The search index is stored on Google's server so you might want to think about the privacy issues and check Google's privacy policy.

The desktop can be infinitely customised. It is bright and fun and much more relevant to the main screen of computers than most offerings by the operating systems.

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