In Win8 (prior to 8.1) there wasn't a unified search. I run a lot of programs that aren't "installed", but are just executables in an indexed directory (like sm

In Win8 (prior to 8.1) there wasn't a unified search. I run a lot of programs that aren't "installed", but are just executables in an indexed directory (like small utilities, or putty, etc). These do not show up by "just typing". And in 8.1, "everything" isn't really "everything". It doesn't search within my e-mails, or other programs that used to integrate with the Windows search indexer. It's basically garbage compared to Vista and 7.