Hi, I got this working a few months ago. I want to index Documents from Openoffice. Google Desktop Search is evil. Copernic Desktop Search became Adwaresupported. I don't remember why but yahoo or whatever was not acceptable by some reason too. Is there any other Desktopsearchengine with Openofficesupport? What you need: Windows Desktop Search StarOffice/OpenOffice IFilter (1.4 works with oo3.0) (free for noncommercial use) You need to modify your registry (you could paste this into an install.reg file or download it from here ): Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\IFilterShop\SOFilter] "Install_Dir"="C:\\Programme\\IFilterShop\\SOFilter" "TempPath"="C:\\WINDOWS\\temp" Of course you have to alter the pathes to be valid. By the way: This is also documented in the readme that shows up after installing the IFilter... but its not realy enduserfriendly written. After that i think (i already said, that it some months...