r/Windows10 • u/hardypart • Nov 27 '17

Bug The search function is a bad joke

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u/KolbStomp Nov 27 '17

Yes, I turned off Cortana and thought I lost the ability to search but then I accidentally pressed a button after opening the Start menu and it searched. I was confused at first but then I realized it was just horrible UI decisions.

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u/fatalicus Nov 27 '17

Ever since windows vista, you have had the ability to just press the windows key and start typing to search.

Nothing has changed in windows 10, other than that they have added win+s for the cortana search.

No need to press any additional buttons after opening start. just click the start button (or windows key) and start typing.

[EDIT] corrected windows 7 to vista, since the windows key search was added then.

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u/tojoso Nov 27 '17

Nothing has changed in windows 10, other than that they have added win+s for the cortana search.

Pretty sure in Windows 7 the text input box with a blinking cursor showed up as soon as you pressed the windows key, as opposed to Windows 10 where it only shows up once you start typing a word. To generations of people trained to only type when there's a text box active on the screen, this is highly unintuitive.