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Sometimes when I try to rename a folder in my home folder, Windows Explorer will lock up until I forcibly restart it. Start menu search seems slower and the re

Sometimes when I try to rename a folder in my home folder, Windows Explorer will lock up until I forcibly restart it. Start menu search seems slower and the returned results are worse than in Windows 7, Unity, XFCE, or any alternative I've experienced. Searching "irefox" doesn't find Firefox. Maybe it's because I've disabled a number of privacy-sensitive features in Windows 10, but Windows 7 managed to make this work without spying on me. The lengths they go through to push Edge irk me quite a bit: tagging it "Microsoft Recommended Browser", adding an extra scare prompt when you switch away from it in the control panel, resetting it to default status as part of automatic updates. I've seen screenshots of a popup appearing on the task bar begging the user to switch to edge, but haven't experienced this myself.

VintageCool 10y ago
The Start Menu search in Windows 10 doesn't search Program Files by default. It only examines Internet Explorer History, the Start Menu, and Users/AppData. It's super frustrating. When I search for "vlc", it gives me search results for VLC and instructions on how to install VLC, but it doesn't actually return the vlc.exe program that I already have installed damnit.
- mintplant 10y ago
  I have Firefox in my Start Menu, and searching "Fir", "Fire", "Firef", etc will turn it up. The search algorithm is just so bad that it ignores partial matches that don't start at the beginning of a word.
- seanp2k2 10y ago
  Try https://github.com/Wox-launcher/Wox https://github.com/Wox-launcher/Wox or http://alternativeto.net/software/everything/ http://alternativeto.net/software/everything/ or https://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mouser/findrun/ https://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mouser/findrun/ or http://colibri.leetspeak.org/ http://colibri.leetspeak.org/ or http://alternativeto.net/software/listary/?platform=windows http://alternativeto.net/software/listary/?platform=windows or http://www.candylabs.com/approcket http://www.candylabs.com/approcket or http://www.launchy.net/download.php#windows http://www.launchy.net/download.php#windows This was a popular thing ~10 years ago, not surprising that Windows didn't get it right. FWIW, MacOS also fails at this regularly with Spotlight, but Alfred is sometimes better. Wox seems to be the closest thing for Windows, and Launchy used to be the one the cool kids used.

VintageCool 10y ago

The Start Menu search in Windows 10 doesn't search Program Files by default. It only examines Internet Explorer History, the Start Menu, and Users/AppData. It's super frustrating. When I search for "vlc", it gives me search results for VLC and instructions on how to install VLC, but it doesn't actually return the vlc.exe program that I already have installed damnit.

mintplant 10y ago
I have Firefox in my Start Menu, and searching "Fir", "Fire", "Firef", etc will turn it up. The search algorithm is just so bad that it ignores partial matches that don't start at the beginning of a word.
seanp2k2 10y ago
Try https://github.com/Wox-launcher/Wox https://github.com/Wox-launcher/Wox or http://alternativeto.net/software/everything/ http://alternativeto.net/software/everything/ or https://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mouser/findrun/ https://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mouser/findrun/ or http://colibri.leetspeak.org/ http://colibri.leetspeak.org/ or http://alternativeto.net/software/listary/?platform=windows http://alternativeto.net/software/listary/?platform=windows or http://www.candylabs.com/approcket http://www.candylabs.com/approcket or http://www.launchy.net/download.php#windows http://www.launchy.net/download.php#windows This was a popular thing ~10 years ago, not surprising that Windows didn't get it right. FWIW, MacOS also fails at this regularly with Spotlight, but Alfred is sometimes better. Wox seems to be the closest thing for Windows, and Launchy used to be the one the cool kids used.