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Eglantier3333 Posted messages 528 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   -  
Eglantier3333 Posted messages 528 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   -
Hello,

I own an official Windows 11 license and I have long installed Google Desktop so that a family member, whenever they want to copy-paste passwords or other texts for the various sites where they are registered, can do so via the Google Desktop right-hand pane that docks to the side of the Windows desktop.

However, he is not very young, and his eyes get tired a bit, knowing that the texts in Google Desktop appear very small and that there is no way to enlarge them.

In addition, there have been no updates for a long time, and I imagine the software must be easily piratable because of security flaws, right?

I am looking for an alternative software but that allows the text to be displayed larger, and perhaps with more features.

I searched the site https://alternativeto.net/ but I could not find anything.

Could you help me, please?

Thank you in advance.

Best regards,
Eglantier

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    Diablo76 Posted messages 351 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   144
     
    Hello,

    However https://alternativeto.net/ offers 18 alternatives:
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    1. brucine Posted messages 25341 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   4 196
       

      Hello,

      Nothing here seems convincing or directly related to the subject, except perhaps Copernic, which is paid.

      There is a multitude of more sophisticated local search utilities than Windows' default one, for example Everything or TotalCommander, but they do not all search inside files and select the search criteria and then let it run, which can be terribly long.

      On the other hand, I have not tested Google Desktop, which is said to be bulky (several GB) and whose usefulness escapes me a bit in this context: if a user has files that are their own, and in the absence of a user account that is as well, could they create a personal folder with an appropriate shortcut where they store their files?

      For addresses and site IDs, and again in the absence of them being saved in the browser's favorites in a dedicated folder, one can for example save the first in a file where they will be directly clickable (Word, Html...) and where one will have noted the second?

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  2. Grandasse_ Posted messages 996 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   616
     

    Hello,

    Why not use a text editor (simple or rich) in which the text is configured to be large and readable for the user?

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  3. Eglantier3333 Posted messages 528 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   4
     
    Good evening Diablo76,

    Thank you for your reply, but the results did not match what I’m actually looking for.

    Good evening Brucine,

    Thank you for your reply. Word isn’t really what I’m looking for; it would be a software that continually displays a side panel on the desktop and where all the usernames and passwords of sites we are registered on would appear.

    Good evening Grandasse,

    Thank you for your reply. Your lead isn’t wrong, but I’d like the text to display on a panel on the desktop.

    Ultimately, I thought of Notezilla. Thanks for your answers, everyone.
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