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Re:Skepticism after Windows 10 search failure by Semaphor on Saturday February 08, 2020 @07:06AM (#22275350)
It’s pretty stable for me.

I start typing "Code", by the time "Cod" is typed, I see VS Code and want to press enter, before I realize that, I get done typing the "e" and out of nowhere "code.bat" (whatever that is) appears and gets executed.

Stable at a PoS level.

Windows search is the worst part about Windows 10 for me and I have no idea how anyone ever thought it was at a better than some pre-alpha stage. All the different updates do, are make it behave in new utterly dumb ways.

Luckily Keypiranha means I rarely ever need it.

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Re:Skepticism after Windows 10 search failure by retsibsi on Saturday February 08, 2020 @07:17AM (#22275374)
On Windows 8.1, when I want to run Paint.NET I have to remember to accept the suggestion before typing the full name; it guesses correctly until I finish the .net, at which point it decides I want to open a web page.

(Honestly though I'm pretty happy with it, it's good enough that I never miss the old-fashioned Start menu like I expected to.)

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Re:Skepticism after Windows 10 search failure by willis936 on Saturday February 08, 2020 @10:01AM (#22276027)
In fairness, knowing about prefix codes and top level domains, paint.NET is an unforgivably bad name for a program.
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