Thread 106635996

How do I get windows (10) to find the exact file im searching for and the folder its in via the search bar?

Such a simple thing. The most useful thing. A truly universal, accurate search tool. It just searches everything and finds what you need. And somehow decades upon decades after the creation of Windows it is still broken garbage.

I still remember the transition, I had a Win7 machine and a Win10, I would use the Win7 for searching and simply couldn't on the Win10. This company is so hopeless.

>>106635996 (OP)
Download and install EVERYTHING. Thank me later.

>>106636022
its already on my pc

>>106636019
I've been upset about it since the very day windows 10 launched.

>>106635996 (OP)
>he doesn't memorise where his each file is
>ngmi

>>106635996 (OP)
That useless dog can be disabled by flipping a bit in regedit.

>>106635996 (OP)
I'm sorry, you just have to use "Everything" by voidtools

>>106635996 (OP)
You install voidtool's everything

>>106635996 (OP)
>How do I get windows (10) to find the exact file im searching for and the folder its in via the search bar?
That's the neat part, natively, you don't!
https://antibody-software.com/wizfile/
^ This little fucker is what you're looking for.

>>106636151
But the dog makes it better.

>>106635996 (OP)
Even in XP the search functionality was crippled. Windows 2000 was the last version of windows where the search 100% worked. Though at least with XP the windows 2000 search functionality could be restored with registry edits.

>>106637457
It was perfected on windows 7.

>>106638912
> It was perfected on windows 7
Windows 7 search is utterly unusable. Absolutely worthless. When I "upgraded" to windows 7 I had to switch to a third-party search utility because windows 7 search is not fit for any purpose.

>>106635996 (OP)
I'm still baffled why they don't search the MFT to find the files instantly even on old HDDs on old slow computers, instead needing some 3rd party utility to do it.

windows still has a search bar in explorer btw.

>>106635996 (OP)
I only use adobe bridge to search files. It's like, so much better than everything else it's ridiculous.

I mean, the Cache is retarded huge but whatever.

>>106636022
I don't have the drive space and it would take centuries even with super fast internet. I'll just download and install what I need when I need it.

>>106635996 (OP)
Use the explorer window, not the start menu.

>>106638912
Slop.

dir *nigger*.* /s /b

>>106635996 (OP)
There is no version of Windows Search has ever been worth jack fucking shit, none. Completely fucking useless dogshite, for getting on decades now.
>>106638978
This.
It's like they WANT to hide your shit from you. Bizarre behaviour.

>>106636019
I noticed this at work, we used to very heavily rely on the search on windows 7 and it almost always worked perfectly. When they upgraded our devices to 10 it became absolutely useless so now most employees just organize their personal folders on desktop and look got stuff manually.

>>106635996 (OP)
By installing Agent Ransack

>>106635996 (OP)
>I have never, ever, even once found what I'm looking for via the OS search.
OS devs are all trash

>>106636309
>>106636308
slackware does this by default.

>>106639803
Slackware doesn't use a filesystem with an MFT so, no it doesn't.

>>106635996 (OP)
U have to add somes folder to the ones being indexed in the search settings, stuff like downloads or desktop are for some reason not included by default

>>106636308
>"Everything" by voidtools
I fuckin love everything

>>106638912
>It was perfected on windows 7.

>>106635996 (OP)
>I deliberately typed "Where are my search results?" into the search bar instead of a filename, and it didn't show me any files. How could this be happening to me?

>>106635996 (OP)
You can find a regedit file on How To Geek which removes Bing from the search bar entirely. Maybe it's included in those debloating patches as well, but it's also available stand-alone.