• Shape4985@lemmy.ml
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    1 month ago

    This is partly to do with the start menu trying to act like a search engine. Its frustrating when you are looking for a document or application and it searches the web.

    Microsoft why can we not turn this off!

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      1 month ago

      It’s simple, really.

      If the first results are a web search, you wouldn’t notice how terrible the local search indexing is.

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        I legitimately cannot believe how comically powerful medium level hardware has become yet the windows user experience is so much shittier than it was almost 20 years ago. I remember school machines struggling less to power up on 1gb ram and a one core machine that my gaming rig does sometimes. Windows is such a fucking waste of computing power.

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      ive had to learn never to use the ‘more info’ or ‘search’ options at all, as it defaults to a web search now instead of what im used to, a hdd search for my file or internal windows help documentation. fuggen agony-shivering ! something something you are the product smh my head

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      You can. I’ve had it off for years. It just needs a registry update, and persists across updates.