Or search for a term like "System" and get results like this, all with the same icon:

1. Bing web search results for "system"

2. System Information, a program that shows a report about hardware and software in your computer

3. Settings, the modern control panel app, which has a panel called System

4. The old "System" control panel

5. "Change Your System Sleep Settings", or some other randomly-chosen specific setting from inside the modern System control panel.

With stuff like this, you would think the year of the linux desktop could be a real thing.

(if some distro could manage to provide a consistent UI ...)

Let’s just wait for Windows 11

Failing silently is so damn frustrating (instead of "there was an error", just pretending there are no search results)

It might work, it might fool me once. But you and me computer, we are working together all day! It gets old.

I don't even bother with Windows search any more

There's a tool called Everything that somehow does a search across all files instantaneously and I haven't touched start since then

Have this same problem on Android. Not an MS exclusive. Maybe Apple is better?