It's almost useless. And this isn't some weird occasion. This is daily. Also why can't I search for a person from my contact list?
Everyone has a better system search from what I've experienced. Google, Apple, you name it.
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How can Windows Search still be so goddamn bad?
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It's almost useless. And this isn't some weird occasion. This is daily. Also why can't I search for a person from my contact list?
Everyone has a better system search from what I've experienced. Google, Apple, you name it.
hey can I hijack your thread about the search bar real quick to say I FUCKING HATE RIBBON BARS SO GODDAMN MUCH.
Use an application for decades, then they switch to ribbon bars, and suddenly I don't know where the fuck anything is. Who the fuck likes having all their shit thrown at the top of a window in huge icons with poor organization instead of a dropdown menu?
Use an application for decades, then they switch to ribbon bars, and suddenly I don't know where the fuck anything is. Who the fuck likes having all their shit thrown at the top of a window in huge icons with poor organization instead of a dropdown menu?
I agree with the op. I can't understand why it is so terrible. Searching a set of indexed files should be a solved problem.
The start menu-based search routinely cannot find installed programs that are listed in the start menu or other files I have in indexed locations. Doing searches in File Explorer generally works, but is super slow.
Meanwhile, the Search Everything third party app works perfectly. It doesn't miss results and is way faster.
The start menu-based search routinely cannot find installed programs that are listed in the start menu or other files I have in indexed locations. Doing searches in File Explorer generally works, but is super slow.
Meanwhile, the Search Everything third party app works perfectly. It doesn't miss results and is way faster.
This is why you learn about and switch to Everything.
Windows Search has always been bad for me, yet with every new Windows release you'll find people saying things like, "It really works now guys, honest!" As an example, I placed a randomly named .jpg file and put it into a base folder on my C:\ drive -
Windows Search
Everything
Apparently to get Windows Search working properly it needs to spend an hour of your day indexing, whereas Everything does that quietly in the background.
Windows Search has always been bad for me, yet with every new Windows release you'll find people saying things like, "It really works now guys, honest!" As an example, I placed a randomly named .jpg file and put it into a base folder on my C:\ drive -
Windows Search
Everything
Apparently to get Windows Search working properly it needs to spend an hour of your day indexing, whereas Everything does that quietly in the background.
I forgot people struggle with Win10/8.1/8 search. I've been using Classic Shell for so long now, it's a thing of the past.
BTW, Win10 search is annoying as hell in early versions of the OS, that's a given. So...I just checked right now on the latest Insider build and to my surprise, it works nearly just as well as my old methods but about a half second slower. So there might be hope yet. Long time comin', tho.
The folder search sucks but the windows key search is a great feature. Not quite as functional as the Mac search was back before I gave up on MacOS (~4 years ago and for a host of unrelated reasons) but it is perfectly sufficient for me
Never had a problem with it. Maybe my searches are too simple though - I'll only search for say filenames, not text in files or anything 'deeper'. Don't use the Windows button searchbar like in the gif either, I have that hidden/disabled.
I'm glad other people find the same! Why would I want a web search prioritised over a start menu item.
Then the actual file search can be hit or miss too.
Locate command on Linux is so good.
Then the actual file search can be hit or miss too.
Locate command on Linux is so good.
It's the thing I miss most about Macs, their searches run like butter on hot toast and work immediately. Windows is ass in that respect
the in folder search is garbage..
i've been using agent ransack since ages and never looked back..
The ribbon is far, far superior. Put in ten minutes of effort to figure it out and you'll never want to go back.
I've put more than ten minutes of effort into it. No, it's not. It fucking sucks.
Use void tool's "Everything" instead.
I've understood it for ten years and it's sucked for ten years.
I've understood it for ten years and it's sucked for ten years.
It's absolutely useless in both 10 and server 2016. I fail to understand how it can be so poor for launching applications
Spotlight is so much better than the windows search they might as well be different products. One is search, the other is a roulette wheel of documents and applications
Spotlight is so much better than the windows search they might as well be different products. One is search, the other is a roulette wheel of documents and applications
Completely agreed. The menu system worked, I'm not sure why they changed it up other than for the sake of change.
Yep this is why I use search everthing. Windows Search has never worked for me. Its a bemusing how Microsoft cant get something simple like searching working properly and yet a 3rd party can.
Launchng apps is actually the one thing I had ok luck with on W10, but anything else? it just shits the bed
I thought I had literally lost years worth of mail on a server until I switched back to mac OS and boom, there it was, in like 1 second flat.
OP
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I wish Microsoft could take a break from stealing Apples translucency and reorganizing the settings app, and instead focus on the core experience, including search.
My Windows search can't find EA Origin. Couldn't find the .exe, couldn't even find the directory until I added a shortcut to desktop, which it manages to find.
This thread is damn near inspirational. I'm installing hella programs that make Windows 10 more usable. Shit is really good with that everything, classic shell, qtabs and a bunch more.
Its unbelieveable how shit this search is. Really. I search for "uninstall" it will show different results everytime. It seems that it does a random search in hour HDD and settings and show whatever it finds first which at least should mean that it isFAST (which it isnt). So in the end it's sometihng slow and unreliable. I only use it to find the windows defender, windows updates, windows settings or the general uninstall a program page (and ofc 1/3 of the time it shows something wierd (right now it shows me a "uninstall" file, with no extension, found deep inside 7 folders. Amazing.
While that is annoying, there is a much easier solution for that. Open the "Settings" app, choose "Apps" and click uninstall on the ones you don't want.
If you're looking for like a specific .ini file or something, it could not possibly be more worthless.
Everything is a must have program.
Haha, I've had this exact problem from the gif with my programs. It's so bad that I just started laughing when I realised what's happening
I read that Microsoft is working on a new version of Windows 10 for PCs that modernizes everything (fixes the problem of some things looking like Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, some things looking like they're from Windows XP, 95, etc)
I hope it has a new search engine that's more useful for finding files in my HDD.
Can you record it? Because I've tried it with several programs now and it's a constant. I almost don't believe it.
I need this except as a replacement for what happens when I press the windows key and with better presentation. If only it was open source, I'd probably just do it myself.
Sometimes when I search Uninstall it goes straight to that "apps" page that you are talking about, which is where I wanted to go.
Now I tried searching "apps" and it took me to a matlab/help/includes/shared/equationrender/release/image/apps.
FUCK. This shit is just inconsistent. You can't even 'memorize' a keyword to do something that it will basically show different results all the time.
My only day to day interaction with windows on my gaming rig. The OS is such a pain in the ass to deal with:
OP is correct search is garbage. I have far too many instances of spelling out the application name only to have a fucking browser launch.
Last month I had to figure out how to make sure the OS would not auto update on me. This resulted in far too much time spent searching for how to do it only to find out that the solution is to trick the PC into thinking it's on a data plan....
Windows in general is garbage, but it says games well.
Also to be fair OS X is getting on my nerves more and more as well.
OP is correct search is garbage. I have far too many instances of spelling out the application name only to have a fucking browser launch.
Last month I had to figure out how to make sure the OS would not auto update on me. This resulted in far too much time spent searching for how to do it only to find out that the solution is to trick the PC into thinking it's on a data plan....
Windows in general is garbage, but it says games well.
Also to be fair OS X is getting on my nerves more and more as well.
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