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> To this day, you can't even reliably search for local files on a win10 system. They literally laid off their QA department. I would've thought this to be an
by rootlocus 8y ago
> To this day, you can't even reliably search for local files on a win10 system. They literally laid off their QA department.
I would've thought this to be an exaggeration, but I have the discord app installed, it's automatically starting at boot, It's pinned to the task bar, but when I search for "discord" in the start menu, it gives me a worthless "search the web" result. It's almost insulting...
- opencl 8y agoIronically there's a Search and Indexing Troubleshooting Wizard built into Windows 10 because the feature is so unreliable but the Start Menu search doesn't find it even when it's working properly.
- mikec3010 8y agoThe conspiracy theorist in me says they broke it on purpose to encourage users to migrate to azure or onedrive. Even on 3+ghz CPUs with multi-gbps SSDs, copying hundreds of little files on my win10 OEM pc was painfully slow. I suspect the A/V was scanning every single one. They have every incentive to gimp local file I/O to promote their higher-profit cloud services.
- opencl 8y agoThat is the Defender real time protection, loves to hog enormous amounts of CPU during any file I/O, you can disable it temporarily but it very aggressively nags you about it. However it does let you exclude specific folders and will not prevent you from doing things like excluding your entire home folder or even C:\.
- nightski 8y agoHmm, it's the top result in my start menu just by typing the letter "d".
- mikec3010 8y agoYeah, it's broken. You will get matches for one letter, but not for 3. It's ridiculous.
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