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0 pointsCydeWeys8y ago0 comments

What is "everything search"? Is that third party or does it ship with Windows? That sounds like something I need.

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https://www.voidtools.com

You might also like http://www.getwox.com (basically Alfred for Windows) which can also search the Everything DB.

There’s also stuff like https://mobile.jam-software.de/ultrasearch/?language=EN and https://sourceforge.net/projects/swiftsearch/

Yeah, Cortana is awful and if you totally remove it, you break the start menu (just like removing IE back in the day...sigh). Blackbird can stop the Cortana stuff from loading, though: http://www.getblackbird.net/documentation/

I highly recommend Blackbird for stopping Cortana and the other stuff it does (telemetry / tracking blocking + stopping W10 mandatory updates). I basically run this + https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10 on new W10 installs at minimum. https://chocolatey.org is also a big improvement for Windows if you don’t already know about it.

CydeWeysOP8y ago

Thanks so much. I will definitely try these out. It's a shame to have to resort to third party tools to have an acceptable experience for such a basic OS use case as finding and launching applications. I don't know what the hell they're doing over there at MSFT anymore, but they're missing several basic building blocks of a good OS.

vocatus_gate8y ago

For what it's worth I'm another person who's been using "Everything" for years and love it.

vocatus_gate8y ago

Reddit.com/r/TronScript also works well for killing off Cortana and the telemetry "features"

gggvvff8y ago

Alfred is Spotlight. Conclusion: switch to a Mac if you want a working computer.

taohansen8y ago

or, y'know, the other operating system not trying to turn a profit on you, Linux.

michaelkourlas8y ago

https://www.voidtools.com/

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seanp2k28y ago

https://www.voidtools.com

You might also like http://www.getwox.com (basically Alfred for Windows) which can also search the Everything DB.

There’s also stuff like https://mobile.jam-software.de/ultrasearch/?language=EN and https://sourceforge.net/projects/swiftsearch/

CydeWeysOP8y ago

vocatus_gate8y ago

For what it's worth I'm another person who's been using "Everything" for years and love it.

vocatus_gate8y ago

Reddit.com/r/TronScript also works well for killing off Cortana and the telemetry "features"

gggvvff8y ago

Alfred is Spotlight. Conclusion: switch to a Mac if you want a working computer.

taohansen8y ago

or, y'know, the other operating system not trying to turn a profit on you, Linux.

michaelkourlas8y ago

https://www.voidtools.com/

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