Re:Microsoft Office 2019 will only work on Windows 10
by cm2187 on Friday February 02, 2018 @12:09PM
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By the way on search (not in the start menu, in explorer), do you know why it is so slow? It can sometimes take minutes to search for filename in a network drive when listing all files in the same drive in c# takes seconds (and if you even dare to change how results are sorted, it would reset the search from scratch...). That's not specific to Windows 10, Windows 7 does the same. It seems to be doing all sort of unwanted stuff but I don't know what and I don't know how to turn them off to only search by file name.
Re:Microsoft Office 2019 will only work on Windows 10
by ZenoArrow on Saturday February 03, 2018 @06:27AM
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> "By the way on search (not in the start menu, in explorer), do you know why it is so slow?"
I've given up using it. A work colleague recommended Agent Ransack and I've been happily using that ever since.
If Microsoft were to "delete and start again" on two areas, for me it would have to be Windows' Search and the Printer stack. They're almost impressive in their terribleness. I literally use Notepad++'s file search for file content and FileLocator Pro for filenames instead of Windows search because it is more consistent, reliable, and faster.
I actually had a conversation with a Microsoft employee at a conference who then worked on search in Windows 7. And after that conversation I absolutely understood why it was in the state that it was in. He believed it was bad because it wasn't complex enough, wanting to pile in even more supported file type filters and expanding language services. Both of which they wound up doing in Windows 8, making it even more complicated and unreliable.