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AI is great but how about fixing start menu search? Search that was perfectly working on Windows 7 but was lobotomized in subsequent versions.

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It’s the next great thing about surfacing semantically relevant bing ads in your start menu and sending Microsoft summarized “diagnostic data” about everything you do and read to “improve their product experience.” Enjoy!

Even in Win7 it wasn't particularly fast. I don't get how that one random person working on that "Everything" search utility was able to build instantaneous search on Windows, but Microsoft themselves couldn't figure it out.

One assumes that it's loaded with telemetry and bing-first searching, so it's design for data exploitation of customers rather than to be a menu

In fact, if you disable web search via a registry value or group policy (don't remember which), it becomes a lot faster. Not Everything fast, but significantly faster nonetheless.

Maybe the AI will be able to delete files and directories faster than me doing it myself with a magnetised needle and a steady hand.

The context menu too!

How about the settings menu?

(edit: tbf while I don't have Windows 11, this feels like a safe presumption)

It's easy enough to restore:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/restor...

They’re still working on perfecting the system that sends all your data to the cloud so you can search it again.

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