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- Settings
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The Settings Dialog allows you to configure Lookup Assistant.
- Hotkey allows to enable/disable and adjust hotkey to provide with single click access from any application. The hotkey is set by clicking the field by mouse and pressing a desired key combination on the keyboard;
- Search Context Menu enables/disables the ability to show the where-to-lookup context menu. To activate the menu you have to press the hotkey and keep the mouse pressed for more than 0.5 sec. When you release the button the menu is shown;
- Use Default Browser switches the lookup result location: the docked bar or a default browser;
- Lookup Bar allow to select (by pressing a keyboard key set) a combination will be used to activate Lookup Assistant Bar for typing a word-to-search manually;
- Configure allows to set default lookup resource, which is used during ordinary hotkey press in any application and "LookUp" button press in Lookup Bar;
- Desktop Search (Plus version only)
- Desktop Search is based on Windows Index Search facility included in Windows 2000 and later. Desktop Search option is available automatically via Context Menu if the index search is available. To use Desktop Search the Index Search service must be
- Installed. The Index Search service installation is performed via ControlPanel/AddRemovePrograms/WindowsComponents (2000/XP) or ControlPanel/ProgramsAndFeature/TurnWindowsFeaturesOnOrOff/IndexingService (Vista/Windows7) applet.
- Launched. If the service is installed you can check/launch the service via MyComputer/RightClick/Manage/ServicesAndApplications/IndextingService
- Configured. The launched service has to be configured for where the files for the lookup are located. You can add locations (directories or entire disks) to the service processing. The service processes the locations slowly, in the background, saving CPU resources of your computer for main tasks, so indexing process can take time. The lookup is performed in the "System" catalog by default.
DTS-Check.exe utility is included to help you managing Windows Index Search facility. The utility allows you to verify the Index Search facility state and configuartion step by step. Administrator rights are required to use the utility. - Lookup List
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Lookup List allows you to manage where-to-lookup list shown in Context Menu. Adding new lookup resources and lookup groups are available in Plus Edition only. - The sites list can be re-arraged up or down to make the sites order in the Context Menu more convinient for you.
The options are available via the toolbar, the hotkeys or right clicking the list by mouse. - To configure a lookup group you have to create a named group first then iterate through the expected group members and choose/set the group by name into each the desired group member.
- The site/group hotkey is set y clicking the field by mouse and pressing a desired key combination on the keyboard. The hotkey can be available in Lookup Bar only or within an applications you are lookip-ing from directly.
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