Editorial: Has Windows Search Got Any Better Over The Years? Hint: It Hasn't

Once again yet more proof of how moronic M$ is.. and sadly they just don't learn.

Fancier is NOT better. results are.

Win8 is another in the looooooooooooooooong list of f'ups from M$... hardly a shock though.


For those that doubt (fanboi's).. bet you don't remember "Edlin"

I did As I'm getting too much rather than too little, I'll opt to leave good enough alone.

btw: mapping a drive to OS X 10.4 system and using the folder search for doc finds doc.txt as well as letters.doc

Why bother with windows search at all.
Just download EVERYTHING. Have used it for years on all systems and it's brilliant. I wonder why Micr osoft haven't bought them up!!

I subscribe to, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Hence, my business will continue to run on three WinXP machines until I absolutely must up grade. A tool to quickly find a particular file from among the thousands of files stashed onto my hard drive over the past decade is essential to my business. I long ago gave up on the various Microsoft search tools and switched to Copernic professional. It has kinks that need to be straightened out every few months, but in general it works. However, it too will not find "pack" in search where the term is not at the head of the "word" such as in 10pack. My assumption has been that Copernic was going to be forced out of business as Microsoft added these great new search tools in their new operating systems, but perhaps that is not the case.

I think you missed the focus of the issue; searching our personal PC hard drives - - by definition, it's all local already :grin:

Jobeard
???? Thats what everything does, it searches all local drives instantly unlike the cumbersome m/s
search function??

jobeard
Yeah I guess it doesn't do networks!

I'm not brain damaged enough to use modern operating systems.