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Re: Skepticism after Windows 10 search failure

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Post by steverb »

thebruce87m wrote: post #74
SturgeonsLaw wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If anyone from Microsoft happens to be reading this thread, please read the above comment, then re-read it. It's a spot-on description of the problems and solutions for Windows search. Edit: and just to expand on a point the commenter made, the results would be more valuable if it prioritised in an order like this: 1) Something the user has pinned 2) Something the user has launched a bunch of times 3) The shortcut le…

5. Never anything on the web

There's a registry setting to turn that off thank God.

I LIKE Windows 10, but that particular "feature" is a no go for me.

Re: Skepticism after Windows 10 search failure

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Post by BubRoss »

SturgeonsLaw wrote: post #48
makecheck wrote: post #33

The search behaves “as if” it’s using randomly-ordered keys in a random source dictionary, and it’s maddening. If I type what seems to be the same 3 letters a few times in a row, the result is always different: one time it acts like the app isn’t even installed, another time it finds the app (first choice), another time it finds some other random sub-component instead of the app with a weird file extension. Oh, and m…

If anyone from Microsoft happens to be reading this thread, please read the above comment, then re-read it. It's a spot-on description of the problems and solutions for Windows search. Edit: and just to expand on a point the commenter made, the results would be more valuable if it prioritised in an order like this: 1) Something the user has pinned 2) Something the user has launched a bunch of times 3) The shortcut le…

Absolutely - the file system also has attributes like atime - the last accessed time of a file. It isn't as granular on windows, but a search could still prioritize files by when they were last read.

Re: Skepticism after Windows 10 search failure

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Post by CathedralBorrow »

tuananh wrote: post #118
CathedralBorrow wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My favorite part of Windows 10 search is how when I enter "bittorrent" it has absolutely no idea what I mean. The program is called qbittorrent.

weird. works for me: https://i.imgur.com/9kBh2uB.png

Yeah I assume this is some indexing snafu. Or who knows. I enjoy this behavior more than it annoys me nowadays :)

Re: Skepticism after Windows 10 search failure

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Post by BubRoss »

nocturnial wrote: post #137
Shank wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Everything is a search engine, not at all related to O&O shutup.

I never mentioned everything, I never said shutup was a search engine.. Not everything in this thread is related to "everything", some things are related to windows dailing home to ms hq. dang: I'm done with this bullshit, it's ok to delete my account.

You replied to someone talking about Everything.

Re: Skepticism after Windows 10 search failure

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Post by wtallis »

maest wrote: post #10
Zanni wrote: post #5

Of all the things I hate about Windows, unified search is the worst. If I want to search the web, I'll search the web--there's an app for that, the browser. Let me just search my hard drive, please. I didn't experience this bug, but if I had, I'd be furious that I couldn't search my own local files without somehow getting an internet service involved.

I believe there is a way to disable bing search by setting some flags in the windows registry. I was affected by this bug, and the way to fix it was to disable online search. There's a bunch of articles online on how to do it, eg: https://www.windowslatest.com/2020/02/05/its-not-just-you-wi... Basically have to set HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Search\BingSearchEnabled to 0 and HKEY_CURR…

Ironically, last year Microsoft pushed out a broken patch that caused search to stop working unless you set the "BingSearchEnabled" key to 1.

Re: Skepticism after Windows 10 search failure

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Post by prostheticvamp »

Zanni wrote: post #5

Of all the things I hate about Windows, unified search is the worst. If I want to search the web, I'll search the web--there's an app for that, the browser. Let me just search my hard drive, please. I didn't experience this bug, but if I had, I'd be furious that I couldn't search my own local files without somehow getting an internet service involved.

I don’t know if I had this bug. Search on my desktop wasn’t working yesterday, but it almost never works right, so I /barely noticed anything was unusual/.

Good job, Microsoft.

Re: Skepticism after Windows 10 search failure

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Post by jeen02 »

CathedralBorrow wrote: post #103
makecheck wrote: post #33

The search behaves “as if” it’s using randomly-ordered keys in a random source dictionary, and it’s maddening. If I type what seems to be the same 3 letters a few times in a row, the result is always different: one time it acts like the app isn’t even installed, another time it finds the app (first choice), another time it finds some other random sub-component instead of the app with a weird file extension. Oh, and m…

My favorite part of Windows 10 search is how when I enter "bittorrent" it has absolutely no idea what I mean. The program is called qbittorrent.

bi -> Random file

bit -> Bitlocker

bitt -> qBittorrent (yay!)

bitto to bittorent -> web search

Re: Skepticism after Windows 10 search failure

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Post by bensonn »

My search stopped working months ago, typing anything blanked out whole the Start menu. I figured Windows was punishing me for turning Cortana off in the settings. At some point in the last few weeks a Windows update fixed my search. I agree with a lot of posters- I won't use Windows search. It doesn't do what I want or need, and does not function how I expect.

I had never heard of Everything but just downloaded it and tried it. It is fast! I typed in YYYY-MM-DD for a few different dates. I have never used OneDrive, do not want to use OneDrive and wish I could uninstall OneDrive. OneDrive creates ~10 new files every day.

The broken (now fixed but still stupid) search is just a symptom of a bloated quantity-over-quality, walled-garden, rented-not-owned, OSaaS.

Re: Skepticism after Windows 10 search failure

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Post by efdee »

makecheck wrote: post #33

The search behaves “as if” it’s using randomly-ordered keys in a random source dictionary, and it’s maddening. If I type what seems to be the same 3 letters a few times in a row, the result is always different: one time it acts like the app isn’t even installed, another time it finds the app (first choice), another time it finds some other random sub-component instead of the app with a weird file extension. Oh, and m…

As someone who was regularly frustrated with the problems you describe, it seems that recently (I think with the 1903 upgrade, but not sure) things have gotten a lot better and I finally feel the start menu is listening to me again.

Re: Skepticism after Windows 10 search failure

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Post by [deleted] »

SturgeonsLaw wrote: post #48
makecheck wrote: post #33

The search behaves “as if” it’s using randomly-ordered keys in a random source dictionary, and it’s maddening. If I type what seems to be the same 3 letters a few times in a row, the result is always different: one time it acts like the app isn’t even installed, another time it finds the app (first choice), another time it finds some other random sub-component instead of the app with a weird file extension. Oh, and m…

If anyone from Microsoft happens to be reading this thread, please read the above comment, then re-read it. It's a spot-on description of the problems and solutions for Windows search. Edit: and just to expand on a point the commenter made, the results would be more valuable if it prioritised in an order like this: 1) Something the user has pinned 2) Something the user has launched a bunch of times 3) The shortcut le…

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