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Re:Microsoft is updating Notepad by megaman22 on Thursday July 12, 2018 @09:41PM (#17519946)
Your taskbar search must work considerably better than mine. It's a complete crapshoot what it'll decide to find if I'm not super careful and let it finish loading. Hence why I'm still a user of Classic Shell.
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Re:Microsoft is updating Notepad by frankling_ on Friday July 13, 2018 @03:21AM (#17521078)
I observe the same. Determinism is quite important to get things done quickly. Instead, typing "expl" gives me a lottery between Internet Explorer and whatever their file manager is called.
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Re:Microsoft is updating Notepad by Sohcahtoa82 on Friday July 13, 2018 @08:41PM (#17528038)
The one that REALLY gets me is search for "Windows Update".

If I do it too quickly, it can't find the update control panel and I end up with an Edge window searching Bing for "Windows update"

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Re:Microsoft is updating Notepad by InitialLastName on Friday July 13, 2018 @08:46AM (#17522442)
I think the key is to turn off Cortana and all the internet searching stuff. If I want to search the internet, I'll use a browser.
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