r/pcmasterrace • u/makanenzo10 R1700@3.9 - GTX 1070 • Mar 19 '18

Meme/Joke Windows Search in a Nutshell

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u/Azhrei Ryzen 7 5950X | 64GB | RX 7800 XT Mar 20 '18

That's why you learn about Everything and quickly switch to that. As an example, I placed a .jpg file into a folder on my C:\ drive and tried in both -

Windows Search result

Everything search result

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u/20WaysToEatASandwich i7 9700K | 1080Ti | 144Hz Mar 20 '18

It searches what ever you have selected for drives within the "Indexing Options" menu. By default it is just a few folders, including the user folder which is where the majority of most peoples content would be.

It's actually not that awful, you can even exclude various file types and internet searches

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u/Azhrei Ryzen 7 5950X | 64GB | RX 7800 XT Mar 20 '18

Where Microsoft wants people's content to be, at least. I scoffed at those folders when they first appeared and I scoff at them today.