Finding Windows 10 starts becomes extremely difficult.
Finding Windows 10 starts becomes extremely difficult.
They didn’t request a document search. Adding a search location would be necessary. It seems this method isn’t commonly used by users for system files.
Yeah I was hoping to avoid it in this iteration of windows, but its really starting to grind my gears how utterly useless it is. In windows 8 it was pretty annoying with the fullscreen non-sense, now they're like "ok, have your start menu, but we're not going to make it work" Oh and I just checked, it doesnt find ANY office applications. I guess the issue is probably resolvable and due to the way i installed it or something (although I just used the office 365 installer...) but this NEVER happened with Spotlight on my Macbook. Lot of things I dont like about MacOS, but spotlight is fricken awesome.
Princess Cadence mentioned a classic shell for the win. Running Windows 10 with its classic start menu works perfectly.
When the shortcut isn't found in the Start menu (since you removed it), it won't appear there. To make sure your program shows up during searches, the shortcut should be placed in: All users: C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs. Your account-specific location is: C:\Users\<your name>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs. The Start menu doesn't look through your actual installed program files. If it did, any search results would likely redirect to .dll files, especially with many games and apps installed. If it can't locate anything, it will show the best match it can find, then move to Downloads, then Documents, then Store results, and finally web results.
I don't need Windows to scan every file when you type in the Start Menu search! I prefer using File Manager with its find function. Even the built-in Explorer offers a find option for files. When looking for programs in the Start Menu, I rely on the search feature there. Why should any other process slow down that search? With six drives (four HDDs and two SSDs) totaling around 10 TB and thousands of files, projects, and documents, typing something like "note..." would generate a huge number of results. I just want Notepad to open instantly from the Start Menu search.
It doesn't appear in the start menu because of my removal, but that's not due to me doing it—I haven't. It's actually about Microsoft's performance. If you type in Start, it should continue searching without interruption, and you shouldn't have to keep typing or narrowing options. In a modern OS with fast processing and storage, this shouldn't take much time, no matter how much data is stored. An index works similarly to a large spreadsheet; it doesn't open every folder or scan every file name. You really don't need to criticize Microsoft here. The search feature in Windows is quite poor.
No, its you. I can assure you that. Whether you have done it intentional or not, or used a program to do things (Start Menu cleaner. I know CCleaner has one, in one of the checkbox... so maybe?!), or another user on your PC, I don't know.... but Visio setup creates a shortcut on the start menu. If you have random data loss, than perhaps you should check your RAM and SSD/HDD. But if you genuinely did nothing, all I can think about (not saying you did, just brain storming) is that: a setup of Visio program that is not genuine and the modification done to it broke the start menu shortcut creation (or it was redone and the pirate forgot to add the code to create it), OR you didn't re-install Visio and just transfered it from a past Windows install... but again, this is just brain storming. If you want the start menu to search all your files, simply add the folders to the Search Indexer. Only Windows folder search will search past the indexing. There is no defending... this is how it works. It has been documented when it was introduced in Vista. Nothing has changed, beside web search and layout. Might as well go, "Darn my car broke down... STUPID WINDOWS 10 SEARCH!!!!!" , hehe at least from my perspective.