Query recommendation is an effective method to help users describe their search intentions. In a personalized system, cold-start and the data sparsity were unavoidable, which directly lead to deficient performance of personalizing. As a significant part of a user’s personal information space, a personal computer owns lots of documents relevant to his or her interest. Therefore, desktop data was introduced to construct a user’s preference model. Furthermore, considering the variety of desktop data, relationship between search task and work task was simultaneously exploited to predic...