I like Google very much and almost all their applications and resources, like Picasa 2, Gmail and its online search engine, but Google Desktop is not my favorite, because it uses too much resources of the computer and slows it down. Otherwise, Google desktop does something that Windows already does, that is indexing and searching. It think you do not need another application to do the same task. I instaled it, and uninstaled afterwards. Before this, I had Windows desktop Search, which I liked more, but it had seroius problems of compatibility with Internet Explorer 7.