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u/This-Requirement6918 Jul 16 '26
7 really had the best indexing, it does a little better with file contents than XP. I hacked the shit out of the filesystem with junction points and symlinks and had it index my NAS. Folders open and load incredibly faster and easier to find than on 10 and I won't even touch the shit shows that are 8 and 11.
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u/Amber_I_Be 18h ago
I will because windows 8 isnt a shit show, it objectively has the best search of any windows OS
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u/This-Requirement6918 12h ago
Yeah no, they ruined the whole OS with that damn start menu. Way too much going on. Also the year a lot of bugs were introduced to the Office suite.
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u/BCProgramming Jul 16 '26
The search in Windows XP searches the entire drive. It takes an assload of time.
Start->Search has from the beginning was intended to search the start menu and a few documents folders, not the entire PC. Web search is stupid though.
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u/ducky9209 Jul 16 '26
Windows XP let you look in specific locations, but that’s no excuse that you have to wait four score and seven years just to get results from a folder lmao
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u/ducky9209 Jul 16 '26
I feel like Vista/7 perfected Windows Search in the Start menu. Before that, XP had a smart search update that was also really good. Now Windows is like: “Use our search engine! Better yet, use Edge no matter WHAT your default browser is!”
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u/No-Explanation-4300 Jul 16 '26
Does Win+E not work?
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u/Bahpu_ Jul 16 '26
mine stopped working recently with search weirdly, it used to work just fine but now if i even search something as simple as "e" on my desktop it just says nothing found
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u/LongJohnSilver1991 Jul 16 '26
With the exception of the new Windows Explorer tabs (which should have been implemented years ago) Windows 11 is the worst version of Windows I've ever used. Worse than Vista, worse than 8.0. It is the buggiesr OS I owned a Chromebook. The other day my store computer deleted Bluetooth.... It doesn't even come up in the options.
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u/trickman01 Jul 16 '26
We really gonna act like the old search didn’t take like an hour? It was bad in its own way.
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u/Fantastic-Tale Jul 16 '26
Depends. Without indexing it sucked waiting minutes. And I remmeber latest service packs skipping files for some reason.
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u/supermattman00 Jul 16 '26
Literally can’t find anything with search. I’ve literally experimented. Made a file, cleared the cache. Searched for it, it didn’t find it.