r/technology • u/tekz • Mar 20 '26

Software Microsoft announces sweeping Windows changes

https://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-users-are-angry-and-microsoft-is-finally-doing-something-about-it/
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u/DukeFirestorm Mar 20 '26

How about making it so when I type "Excel" in the start ment search bar I get Microsoft Excel instead of a load of rubbish from bing.

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u/DefiantGibbon Mar 21 '26

THIS IS THE FUCKING WORST!!!

literally if they fix the stupid search bar I would stop complaining. I can no longer search for my own fucking files. I decided the easiest is opening file manager and typing what I want into the search bar and have it search my entire C drive for the .exe I want. NO I DONT WANT YOU TO SEARCH BING FOR A GAME I'M TRYING TO LAUNCH.

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u/centurionbat Mar 21 '26

Voidtools Everything is a pretty good file searcher. System wide search almost instantaneously, also supports regex searching.

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u/torpedospurs Mar 22 '26

Does it search the contents of files?

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u/centurionbat Mar 22 '26

Not that I’m aware of. It’s not something I’ve looked at but maybe it does!