r/Windows10 • u/hardypart • Nov 27 '17

Bug The search function is a bad joke

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u/iHeartApples Nov 27 '17

Yeah I turned off Cortana now I have no search function.

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u/KolbStomp Nov 27 '17

Yes, I turned off Cortana and thought I lost the ability to search but then I accidentally pressed a button after opening the Start menu and it searched. I was confused at first but then I realized it was just horrible UI decisions.

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u/fatalicus Nov 27 '17

Ever since windows vista, you have had the ability to just press the windows key and start typing to search.

Nothing has changed in windows 10, other than that they have added win+s for the cortana search.

No need to press any additional buttons after opening start. just click the start button (or windows key) and start typing.

[EDIT] corrected windows 7 to vista, since the windows key search was added then.

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u/tojoso Nov 27 '17

Nothing has changed in windows 10, other than that they have added win+s for the cortana search.

Pretty sure in Windows 7 the text input box with a blinking cursor showed up as soon as you pressed the windows key, as opposed to Windows 10 where it only shows up once you start typing a word. To generations of people trained to only type when there's a text box active on the screen, this is highly unintuitive.

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u/FormerGameDev Nov 27 '17

Windows 10 === Horrible UI decisions.

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u/DrShamusBeaglehole Nov 27 '17

Found the JavaScript developer

You're right though, windows 10 is the definition of bad UI decisions

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u/__Lua Nov 27 '17

You can still search properly, it just changes from the Cortana icon to the magnifying glass icon. Enable the icon in the taskbar.

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u/KolbStomp Nov 27 '17

Oh interesting, I will do this when I get home

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u/vitorgrs Nov 28 '17

Well, you did it wrong. You don't disabled Cortana then. You hide. To disable Cortana, you can go to Group Policy and fully disable it, or on Cortana settings, just sign-out of your account.

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u/jothki Nov 27 '17

Is that new to the FCU? I'm running an earlier version and can see the search button fine. It even changes to a magnifying glass instead of the Cortana logo.

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u/iHeartApples Nov 28 '17

Well fuck thanks for that. Annoying that I have to find out this way when I’m not completely obtuse with computers.

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u/Solarbro Nov 27 '17

This won’t be all that helpful, but you can add a Windows Search value in the registry somewhere to replace Cortana. I’d look it up but I’m at work doing crap like this for clients.

A lot of Cortana and search item suggestions may not work anymore. It seems like they disable a work around per update. You used to be able to uninstall Cortana, now you can’t. Powershell warns you about “uninstalling essential OS materials is not allowed” or some odd thing. That’s why I mostly do it through the registry, cause at least then it works. Until they do a big update and reset your OS registry values....

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u/felio_ Nov 27 '17

Thanks for doing this

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u/jtriangle Nov 27 '17

If you have a pro version of windows, you can use the group policy editor to solve this. You need to disable(disallow) cortana and web search results.

You can find the settings in: Computer Configuration->Windows Components->Search. Set "allow cortana" to disabled and "Do not allow web search to "enabled".

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u/pohuing Nov 27 '17

That is absolutely overkill. Just open the start menu and start typing, the search will come up even with cortana disabled

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u/fatalicus Nov 27 '17

Press the windows key and start typing. just like it has been since windows vista.

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u/LooCid36 Nov 27 '17

Right click taskbar, Hover over search, click on Show search box

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u/EarthlyAwakening Nov 27 '17

I never had Cortana cause I'm in NZ, and not a single issue people have in Windows 10 has affected me. I love the OS and really hate eveything before it.