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Once upon a time, back in the Vista days, I was looking for a file. I knew the name of the file, and I typed it into the brand new Search Pane. I waited, and wa
by GrantZvolsky 5y ago
Once upon a time, back in the Vista days, I was looking for a file. I knew the name of the file, and I typed it into the brand new Search Pane. I waited, and waited, and waited... Until I decided to run something along the lines of `tree / > files.txt`. The tree command completed, I opened the result in Notepad, and found my file in no time, meanwhile the Search Pane was still searching. I don't have a Windows around to run the experiment in 2022, so I ask: Has Search not improved since the Vista days?
- zapt02 5y agoAs of Windows 11, the situation is exactly the same.
- justsomehnguy 5y agoAs of Windows 10 (20H2 19042.867) with disabled Cortana (integrated web search) it's actually finding files. Even finds openssl.cnf from my Git install. But this is a pretty fresh install from the last year, previous ones were not good.
- kevin_thibedeau 5y agoYou have to use "name:<filename>" to disable searching file contents. It boggles the mind why they eliminated the XP style search in favor of this undiscoverable version and then never improved it.