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I'm currently using it on my home laptop, because Win10 broken search box sometimes hangs and no longer finds anything on my computer. I've been reading somewhe

I'm currently using it on my home laptop, because Win10 broken search box sometimes hangs and no longer finds anything on my computer. I've been reading somewhere that it's because it tries to search the internet first (sic!) and you can turn it off (the internet search part), but didn't have time to try. For me, the most important is to hit Win, find and launch the app as quickly as possible.

Plasmoid 3y ago
The default search in windows is so broken. I'd type in a filename, if find it, but before I could click on it it would be replaced by stupid web search crap. I had to go into the registry to turn off websearch.
- hosteur 3y ago
  How did you do this?
  - bitvoid 3y ago
    https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/disable-windows-web-search https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/disable-windows-web-sear...
- dspillett 3y ago
  Windows search has been broken for a _long_ time. Agent Ransack¹ is one of the first things I add to a fresh Windows install. Soon after some unix-a-like ports go on too (usually via cygwin) so I can use find, grep, and friends. For filename based search on NTFS volumes, WizFile² is useful too as it scans the MTF instead of navigating the directory structure bit-by-bit which can be significantly faster no matter how modern your local drives are. This is the main reason I don't bother even trying Bing – if they can screw up local file search this much, how useful can their global search really be? -- [1] https://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/ https://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/ [2] https://antibody-software.com/wizfile/ https://antibody-software.com/wizfile/
  - inversetelecine 3y ago
    "Everything" is another good option, at least from my basic usage of it. https://www.voidtools.com/faq/#what_is_everything https://www.voidtools.com/faq/#what_is_everything
    - newscracker 3y ago
      Keypirinha (a launcher) works well with Everything. Both are free. The former hasn’t been updated for a few years, but it still works for launching applications, performing quick calculations, currency conversion, etc. [1]: https://keypirinha.com/ https://keypirinha.com/
  - autoexec 3y ago
    I might give that a try. When I need to search for a file on windows I've gone back to using using DIR /s <filename>
eviks 3y ago
Then it's still better to use an app launcher where you can launch the 2nd search result with Ctrl+2 instead of correcting the query or moving to the cursor keys

Plasmoid 3y ago

The default search in windows is so broken. I'd type in a filename, if find it, but before I could click on it it would be replaced by stupid web search crap. I had to go into the registry to turn off websearch.

hosteur 3y ago
How did you do this?
- bitvoid 3y ago
  https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/disable-windows-web-search https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/disable-windows-web-sear...
dspillett 3y ago
Windows search has been broken for a _long_ time. Agent Ransack¹ is one of the first things I add to a fresh Windows install. Soon after some unix-a-like ports go on too (usually via cygwin) so I can use find, grep, and friends. For filename based search on NTFS volumes, WizFile² is useful too as it scans the MTF instead of navigating the directory structure bit-by-bit which can be significantly faster no matter how modern your local drives are. This is the main reason I don't bother even trying Bing – if they can screw up local file search this much, how useful can their global search really be? -- [1] https://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/ https://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/ [2] https://antibody-software.com/wizfile/ https://antibody-software.com/wizfile/
- inversetelecine 3y ago
  "Everything" is another good option, at least from my basic usage of it. https://www.voidtools.com/faq/#what_is_everything https://www.voidtools.com/faq/#what_is_everything
  - newscracker 3y ago
    Keypirinha (a launcher) works well with Everything. Both are free. The former hasn’t been updated for a few years, but it still works for launching applications, performing quick calculations, currency conversion, etc. [1]: https://keypirinha.com/ https://keypirinha.com/
- autoexec 3y ago
  I might give that a try. When I need to search for a file on windows I've gone back to using using DIR /s <filename>

eviks 3y ago

Then it's still better to use an app launcher where you can launch the 2nd search result with Ctrl+2 instead of correcting the query or moving to the cursor keys