• WereCat@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It works inconsistently for me to the point that I just can’t rely on it.

    I can give a very recent example, my W11 has also be freshly installed and there’s not much stuff installed yet.

    I have portable version of HWinfo located in My Documents folder.

    If I start typing “hwi” into search it will sometimes find it, sometimes it will find it only if I type “hw” but not find it if I type “hwi” so if I type fast I must then delete character… And sometimes it needs me to type whole name of the application and sometimes it won’t find anything no matter what I type.

    Then there is Riva Tuner Statistics Server which is an installed application located on C: in Program Files folder. It launches with RTSS.exe… It may as well not exist for Windows search because no matter what I type it can’t ever find it.

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      1 year ago

      For me the trick was to disable web search. I don’t remember how I did it but you can Google it. Then it was really nice and fast, as it should’ve always been

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        1 year ago

        gotta love an OS which costs money and you have to disable features like web search for the fricking search to function properly

        • R0cket_M00se@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          He probably just didn’t have the program in the start menu, it’s a box you check in the wizard.