Cortana is really bad

Re:Cortana is really bad by CydeWeys on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @02:30PM (#15759716)

What is "everything search"? Is that third party or does it ship with Windows? That sounds like something I need.

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Re:Cortana is really bad by seanp2k2 on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @02:46PM (#15759891)

https://www.voidtools.com

You might also like http://www.getwox.com (basically Alfred for Windows) which can also search the Everything DB.

There’s also stuff like https://mobile.jam-software.de/ultrasearch/?language=EN and https://sourceforge.net/projects/swiftsearch/

Yeah, Cortana is awful and if you totally remove it, you break the start menu (just like removing IE back in the day...sigh). Blackbird can stop the Cortana stuff from loading, though: http://www.getblackbird.net/documentation/

I highly recommend Blackbird for stopping Cortana and the other stuff it does (telemetry / tracking blocking + stopping W10 mandatory updates). I basically run this + https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10 on new W10 installs at minimum. https://chocolatey.org is also a big improvement for Windows if you don’t already know about it.

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Re:Cortana is really bad by CydeWeys on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @02:55PM (#15759983)

Thanks so much. I will definitely try these out. It's a shame to have to resort to third party tools to have an acceptable experience for such a basic OS use case as finding and launching applications. I don't know what the hell they're doing over there at MSFT anymore, but they're missing several basic building blocks of a good OS.

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Re:Cortana is really bad by vocatus_gate on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @04:26PM (#15760809)

For what it's worth I'm another person who's been using "Everything" for years and love it.

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Re:Cortana is really bad by vocatus_gate on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @04:27PM (#15760817)

Reddit.com/r/TronScript also works well for killing off Cortana and the telemetry "features"

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Re:Cortana is really bad by gggvvff on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @02:59PM (#15760034)

Alfred is Spotlight. Conclusion: switch to a Mac if you want a working computer.

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Re:Cortana is really bad by taohansen on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @03:25PM (#15760278)

or, y'know, the other operating system not trying to turn a profit on you, Linux.

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Re:Cortana is really bad by michaelkourlas on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @02:37PM (#15759805)

https://www.voidtools.com/

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