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by jandrese 1519 days ago
Windows search is godawful. Not only is it slow, but it explicitly omits a bunch of directories, like AppData in your home. Guess were most applications keep their user accessible data. It's so bad.

If for example someone wants to install a GIMP plugin, you can't tell them to just search for the GIMP directory from their home, because the search simply won't find it.
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jotm 1519 days ago
Search was great in 7. Taskbar search - perfect. Then they did something to fuck it all up. In Windows 10, I get different results for the same search in Taskbar (that's how I launch everything, so if I type "Note" and open N++ a few times, that's it, it should remember it, which is how 7 worked).

Explorer search isn't even working half the time for me lol, either it doesn't show any results or the search bar is completely inaccessible. Fuck knows what's wrong with it, I just use Agent Ransack.

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jandrese 1519 days ago
That "something" was integrating a Bing search into the process, just in case you were trying to find "how is babby made?" on your filesystem search.
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