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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 al
by 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 agoThanks 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 agoFor what it's worth I'm another person who's been using "Everything" for years and love it.
- gggvvff 9y agoAlfred is Spotlight. Conclusion: switch to a Mac if you want a working computer.
- taohansen 9y agoor, y'know, the other operating system not trying to turn a profit on you, Linux.
- vocatus_gate 9y agoReddit.com/r/TronScript also works well for killing off Cortana and the telemetry "features"