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I just keep a window open running "everything search". Insanely fast and actually works!. Cortana is worse than useless for my use cases. The inability to find

by louky 9y ago

I just keep a window open running "everything search". Insanely fast and actually works!. Cortana is worse than useless for my use cases. The inability to find installed programs by name is laughably unacceptable. How they continue to push this stuff out is amazing, their management must be really awful.

CydeWeys 9y ago
What is "everything search"? Is that third party or does it ship with Windows? That sounds like something I need.
- michaelkourlas 9y ago
  https://www.voidtools.com/ https://www.voidtools.com/
- seanp2k2 9y ago
  https://www.voidtools.com https://www.voidtools.com You might also like http://www.getwox.com http://www.getwox.com (basically Alfred for Windows) which can also search the Everything DB. There’s also stuff like https://mobile.jam-software.de/ultrasearch/?language=EN https://mobile.jam-software.de/ultrasearch/?language=EN and https://sourceforge.net/projects/swiftsearch/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/swiftsearch/ Yeah, Cortana is awful and if you totally remove it, you break the start menu (just like removing IE back in the day...sigh). Blackbird can stop the Cortana stuff from loading, though: http://www.getblackbird.net/documentation/ http://www.getblackbird.net/documentation/ I highly recommend Blackbird for stopping Cortana and the other stuff it does (telemetry / tracking blocking + stopping W10 mandatory updates). I basically run this + https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10 https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10 on new W10 installs at minimum. https://chocolatey.org https://chocolatey.org is also a big improvement for Windows if you don’t already know about it.
  - CydeWeys 9y ago
    Thanks so much. I will definitely try these out. It's a shame to have to resort to third party tools to have an acceptable experience for such a basic OS use case as finding and launching applications. I don't know what the hell they're doing over there at MSFT anymore, but they're missing several basic building blocks of a good OS.
    - vocatus_gate 9y ago
      For what it's worth I'm another person who's been using "Everything" for years and love it.
  - gggvvff 9y ago
    Alfred is Spotlight. Conclusion: switch to a Mac if you want a working computer.
    - taohansen 9y ago
      or, y'know, the other operating system not trying to turn a profit on you, Linux.
  - vocatus_gate 9y ago
    Reddit.com/r/TronScript also works well for killing off Cortana and the telemetry "features"
ladzoppelin 9y ago
Everything search is amazing especially for music and pdf searching. Highly recommended and seems to be updated more frequently these days.
WillReplyfFood 9y ago
Theire management wants to be google. At all cost. Its another mighty fine example of people who in there daily live get everything they want by decision, trying to force a daydream into reality.

by louky 9y ago

CydeWeys 9y ago

What is "everything search"? Is that third party or does it ship with Windows? That sounds like something I need.

michaelkourlas 9y ago
https://www.voidtools.com/ https://www.voidtools.com/
seanp2k2 9y ago
https://www.voidtools.com https://www.voidtools.com You might also like http://www.getwox.com http://www.getwox.com (basically Alfred for Windows) which can also search the Everything DB. There’s also stuff like https://mobile.jam-software.de/ultrasearch/?language=EN https://mobile.jam-software.de/ultrasearch/?language=EN and https://sourceforge.net/projects/swiftsearch/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/swiftsearch/ Yeah, Cortana is awful and if you totally remove it, you break the start menu (just like removing IE back in the day...sigh). Blackbird can stop the Cortana stuff from loading, though: http://www.getblackbird.net/documentation/ http://www.getblackbird.net/documentation/ I highly recommend Blackbird for stopping Cortana and the other stuff it does (telemetry / tracking blocking + stopping W10 mandatory updates). I basically run this + https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10 https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10 on new W10 installs at minimum. https://chocolatey.org https://chocolatey.org is also a big improvement for Windows if you don’t already know about it.
- CydeWeys 9y ago
  Thanks so much. I will definitely try these out. It's a shame to have to resort to third party tools to have an acceptable experience for such a basic OS use case as finding and launching applications. I don't know what the hell they're doing over there at MSFT anymore, but they're missing several basic building blocks of a good OS.
  - vocatus_gate 9y ago
    For what it's worth I'm another person who's been using "Everything" for years and love it.
- gggvvff 9y ago
  Alfred is Spotlight. Conclusion: switch to a Mac if you want a working computer.
  - taohansen 9y ago
    or, y'know, the other operating system not trying to turn a profit on you, Linux.
- vocatus_gate 9y ago
  Reddit.com/r/TronScript also works well for killing off Cortana and the telemetry "features"

ladzoppelin 9y ago

Everything search is amazing especially for music and pdf searching. Highly recommended and seems to be updated more frequently these days.

WillReplyfFood 9y ago

Theire management wants to be google. At all cost. Its another mighty fine example of people who in there daily live get everything they want by decision, trying to force a daydream into reality.