Skepticism after Windows 10 search failure

Re:Skepticism after Windows 10 search failure by blondin on Friday February 07, 2020 @08:08PM (#22272930)

they failed to find a good place for that search, but the feature, itself, is extremely valuable.

on the mac, for example, spotlight search is part of things i do on autopilot. that's how they should have presented that search functionality. a keyboard shortcut, big search field in the middle of the screen... cortana shouldn't have been the front focus here...

i still use it though. would be sad to see it go! i use it to see where stuff and settings that were obvious and easy to find before are now hidden.

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Re:Skepticism after Windows 10 search failure by orev on Friday February 07, 2020 @10:06PM (#22273528)

Sounds like Launchy

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Re:Skepticism after Windows 10 search failure by porker on Saturday February 08, 2020 @02:49AM (#22274577)

I still use Launchy on Windows 10, alongside the native search. The plugins Launchy has like for Putty integration make it invaluable.

It's a shame it's no longer developed.

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Re:Skepticism after Windows 10 search failure by 1wd on Saturday February 08, 2020 @02:56AM (#22274605)

Have you tried Wox? https://github.com/Wox-launcher/Wox

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Re:Skepticism after Windows 10 search failure by porker on Saturday February 08, 2020 @03:39AM (#22274735)

Hadn't heard of it until now, taking a look. Thanks.

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