[megaman22]

1.) If you can get it, LTSB is your friend.

2.) Classic Shell is mandatory. How you could break the start menu search as profiundly as Windows 10 does is baffling.

[zeusk]

2.) It isn't just Windows, Mac has done it too; Try this in spotlight:

'vsc' will show Visual Studio Code

'vsco' will show a web search of 'vscode extensions' and Visual Studio Code nowhere to be seen

'xc' will show Xcode

'xco' will show Xcode Server Builder

[eropple]

Yeah, it gets weird. First thing I do on every new Mac is disable Spotlight for everything except applications and system preferences, though, and that helps a lot.

[s73v3r_]

xco shows Xcode for me.

[elaus]

Regarding the second point: I really don't get what's up with the start menu search. I don't use Win 10 all that often (secondary OS) and always assumed it's somehow broken for me. I almost never find anything I'm looking for and it feels absolutely ridiculous.

[woodrowbarlow]

what? so it's not just me?

i assumed that it stopped working after i went ballistic in the privacy and telemetry sections of the control panel.

[makecheck]

It’s one thing to rank results differently as you type but I can’t comprehend how entire results go away when they still should match as you continue.