Windows 10 October 2018 Update no longer deletes your data

Re:Windows 10 October 2018 Update no longer deletes your data by setquk on Thursday October 11, 2018 @04:25AM (#18191774)

The slow start menu is awful. I want to press start then type what I want to open but it is so slow you have to wait nearly 2s to type or it will lose the first few characters. Add to that the search result quality is dire.

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Re:Windows 10 October 2018 Update no longer deletes your data by stinky613 on Thursday October 11, 2018 @08:14AM (#18192811)

I disable web search and Cortana, and it makes all the difference in the world for Win key + type the first few characters of an app:

    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search]
    "ConnectedSearchUseWeb"=dword:00000000
    "AllowCortana"=dword:00000000

https://pastebin.com/ApnfB7wC

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Re:Windows 10 October 2018 Update no longer deletes your data by jug on Thursday October 11, 2018 @11:37AM (#18194372)

Wow, you can do that??

There ought to be an unofficial Windows 10 Settings app that uncovers stuff like this. Somehow Microsoft isn't quite getting it right and they ship Windows 10 with two different ones...

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Re:Windows 10 October 2018 Update no longer deletes your data by tomatotomato37 on Thursday October 11, 2018 @02:54PM (#18196085)

It's at a new location now because why not:

  [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search]

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Re:Windows 10 October 2018 Update no longer deletes your data by setquk on Thursday October 11, 2018 @08:48AM (#18193023)

Thanks for tip - will try this

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Re:Windows 10 October 2018 Update no longer deletes your data by Jaruzel on Thursday October 11, 2018 @04:37AM (#18191823)

Just press Windows+Q, and start typing. Much faster.

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Re:Windows 10 October 2018 Update no longer deletes your data by setquk on Thursday October 11, 2018 @06:04AM (#18192189)

Hey that works pretty well. Thanks for the tip! :)

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Re:Windows 10 October 2018 Update no longer deletes your data by Guillaume86 on Thursday October 11, 2018 @06:28AM (#18192281)

Just the Windows key do the trick for me, have been using that since they started adding more crap to the start menu (Vista?).

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Re:Windows 10 October 2018 Update no longer deletes your data by vbezhenar on Thursday October 11, 2018 @08:18AM (#18192836)

For me start menu is instant (well, animation takes few milliseconds, but it starts instantly) and I can start to type anything immediately, like <Win>cmd.

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