Windows.next to be "Completely Different" and "Mind-Blowing" - Hardware & Software

[QUOTE=Pixel Heart;20829460]I never use search, or understood why people use it so much... surely people don't have terabytes of files to dig through on a daily basis. I always know where I put my files. I'm guessing people are just lazy.[/QUOTE] The start menu search is IMO the one of the best minor additions to Windows that I've ever seen. Rather than digging through my start menu for the program I want (which might be buried behind some company name that I can't remember) I can just type in the first few letters and find it in seconds. [editline]09:00AM[/editline] And I'm also one of those people who almost never uses search to find files.

[QUOTE=Pixel Heart;20829460]I never use search, or understood why people use it so much... surely people don't have terabytes of files to dig through on a daily basis. I always know where I put my files. I'm guessing people are just lazy. [editline]12:29AM[/editline] Good riddance to ancient rubbish. It had a great run. It's probably the most exploited OS to date. I even stuck with XP until Windows 7 came out. But seriously, I can never go back. People resilient to change their antiquated OS deserve to be left behind and abandoned. XP will die off eventually, and it's quite sad it didn't happen 5 years ago.[/QUOTE] I use it for starting programs. Run replacement and start programs in the start menu.

I haven't done windows + r in ages thanks to the new start menu. As for Windows.next, sure, as long as it isn't shit.

[QUOTE=gparent;20831089]The most popular and arguably best MS OS pre-7 is the most exploited OS to date? Is that supposed to be surprising? There's a reason the OS lasted long - It's not "being resistant to change", it's very simple economics and business logic. Vista required a computer upgrade, and had a ton of driver and software problems at its release. It also wasn't viable on netbooks because of its resource usage (why do you think MS continued to sell XP?) Any good network administrator would not want to deal with these issues, and would just skip to the next version of Windows that actually worked out of the box when things settled down. It would've never happened 5 years ago; everyone knew that. I'm seeing enterprises *starting* to think about migrating to Windows 7 right now. It would've been completely senseless for Microsoft to drop support for it any earlier than in a few years.[/QUOTE] Lets just hope XP doesn't see service packs after SP4. [QUOTE=Panda X;20836661]I use it for starting programs. Run replacement and start programs in the start menu.[/QUOTE] I think [B]cmd[/B], [B]charmap[/B], and [B]calc[/B] are the only things i type in the run/searchbox.

[QUOTE=Pixel Heart;20848745]Lets just hope XP doesn't see service packs after SP4. I think [B]cmd[/B], [B]charmap[/B], and [B]calc[/B] are the only things i type in the run/searchbox.[/QUOTE] Ok. But I still type more.

I still use Win + R because I'm used to it, and because I don't like how search results in the start menu aren't really immediate (when you type in something like "cmd"... typing in "command" seems to get you a faster response), which bugs me a bit.

[QUOTE=a2h;20848964]I still use Win + R because I'm used to it, and because I don't like how search results in the start menu aren't really immediate (when you type in something like "cmd"... typing in "command" seems to get you a faster response), which bugs me a bit.[/QUOTE] Never noticed that. Though you don't have to wait for it to show.

[QUOTE=Panda X;20849089]Never noticed that. Though you don't have to wait for it to show.[/QUOTE] I'm aware of that, but it just doesn't feel right

I just Windows Search would actually search everything you told it too :(

Try either updating the index, adding the location you are trying to search, and check the settings of the start menu, I think it's limited to all programs and user folder by default, regardless of whatever else you have in the index.

[QUOTE=a2h;20849375]I'm aware of that, but it just doesn't feel right[/QUOTE] Just tested it again and it didn't happen. :confused: [editline]04:10PM[/editline] [QUOTE=Dr Egg;20852908]I just Windows Search would actually search everything you told it too :([/QUOTE] It searches through all indexed folders.

[QUOTE=Dr Egg;20852908]I just Windows Search would actually search everything you told it too :([/QUOTE] [U][U][img]http://imgur.com/n9U7U.png[/img][/U] [/U]

It's not that that annoys me. It's how Windows likes to hide system programs unless you type the entire name out. I'd rather it just showed me the possible matches as I typed it for things like diskmgmt.msc like when you search for anything else.

Ah, well. Yeah, not much to do about it except learn the fastest way to get whatever you're trying to run to show up.

[QUOTE=Dr Egg;20873085]It's not that that annoys me. It's how Windows likes to hide system programs unless you type the entire name out. I'd rather it just showed me the possible matches as I typed it for things like diskmgmt.msc like when you search for anything else.[/QUOTE] Windows and Sys32 aren't indexed.