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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It works inconsistently for me to the point that I just can't rely on it.

I can give a very recent example, my W11 has also be freshly installed and there's not much stuff installed yet.

I have portable version of HWinfo located in My Documents folder.

If I start typing "hwi" into search it will sometimes find it, sometimes it will find it only if I type "hw" but not find it if I type "hwi" so if I type fast I must then delete character... And sometimes it needs me to type whole name of the application and sometimes it won't find anything no matter what I type.

Then there is Riva Tuner Statistics Server which is an installed application located on C: in Program Files folder. It launches with RTSS.exe... It may as well not exist for Windows search because no matter what I type it can't ever find it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For me the trick was to disable web search. I don't remember how I did it but you can Google it. Then it was really nice and fast, as it should've always been

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

gotta love an OS which costs money and you have to disable features like web search for the fricking search to function properly

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

He probably just didn't have the program in the start menu, it's a box you check in the wizard.