Windows 10 search ignores exe files
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@blakeyrat said in Windows 10 search ignores exe files:
@sloosecannon said in Windows 10 search ignores exe files:
He's talking about easily, through the UI, genius.
Turns out I don't have telepathy.
You apparently not only have telepathy, but the mystical voodoo ability to speak for El_Heffe. I admire your various super-powers, but I do not possess them.
Ah, I see you're feeling particularly well today?
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@sloosecannon said in Windows 10 search ignores exe files:
Not telepathy, but the ability to read things from context, Drax.
Are you speaking for yourself, or El_Heffe? Now I'm confused. Maybe you could like italicize when you're speaking in someone else's voice.
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@blakeyrat said in Windows 10 search ignores exe files:
Are you speaking for yourself, or El_Heffe
Yes
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@blakeyrat said in Windows 10 search ignores exe files:
I just... I just don't know how to respond to posts like this
You can let people be wrong on the internet. It won't hurt.
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@fbmac It's not that they're wrong, it's that they're self-contradictory.
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@blakeyrat said in Windows 10 search ignores exe files:
Turns out I don't have telepathy.
Or reading skills!
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@boomzilla I read every single word that appeared on the screen.
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@blakeyrat That's a start. Now you have to put them together (in order! this is important) and remember what you saw, too.
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@blakeyrat reading is not always comprehending.
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@blakeyrat said in Windows 10 search ignores exe files:
I read every single word that appeared on the screen.
That's unusual for you. Did it hurt?
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I love the abuse, keep piling it on. Tell me how stupid I am for not reading the imaginary words. Please. Keep going.
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@blakeyrat said in Windows 10 search ignores exe files:
I love the abuse
Obviously. You're still here in the threads after all... Have you any work to do?
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@blakeyrat said in Windows 10 search ignores exe files:
I love the abuse, keep piling it on. Tell me how stupid I am for not reading the imaginary words. Please. Keep going.
Nonononono. You don't understand the real words. I think that's more of a symptom than a cause, though.
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@blakeyrat said in Windows 10 search ignores exe files:
@El_Heffe said in Windows 10 search ignores exe files:
It's been 21 years since the Start Menu was first introduced and it's still a one way street, i.e., you can delete items but not add them.
OK, so you can delete but not add...
@El_Heffe said in Windows 10 search ignores exe files:
The only way to add an item to the Start Menu is to use Explorer and manually drop a shortcut into the proper folder.
But literally the next sentence, you reveal you can add.
I just... I just don't know how to respond to posts like this. Like, do you read your OWN typing and realize you wrote a whole paragraph that's nothing but a huge contradiction of itself?
There is nothing contradictory. You cannot add a shortcut directly to the Start Menu, e.g. you can't drag it there and there is nothing you can click on that says "add shortcut".
What you CAN do is use Explorer or your favorite file mangler to place a shortcut in a special directory, and then it will magically appear in the Start Menu.
But you already knew that, and you're just being an asshole as usual.
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@sloosecannon said in Windows 10 search ignores exe files:
You can delete (uninstall) stuff [from the Start menu] by right-clicking it, but you can't add things that way (or any other simple method, like dragging).
Is this just new to Windows 10? In every other version of Windows I've used that had a Start menu, from 95 up to 7, you could drag something into the start menu just fine. Although, I think the default action is "Move"... holding down Alt will make it drop a shortcut instead of the original file, though.
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@blakeyrat said in Windows 10 search ignores exe files:
It's not that they're wrong, it's that they're self-contradictory.
First you said they're not wrong. Then you said they're self-contradictory. That's both wrong and self-contradictory. How can something be self-contradictory if it's not wrong? Oh, did you mean that it's not just wrong, it's also self-contradictory? Well I'm not telepathic, so I'm going to pretend like I didn't know what you mean. Also, I'm an asshole.
/end @blakeyrat impression
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@accalia said in Windows 10 search ignores exe files:
oh please, the only good windows was windows 3, that 3.11 windows for workgroups shite was absolute crap!
3.1 was better than 3. I used both. I remember.
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I just had this problem with Windows Server 2012R2 (actually Windows 8.1, not 10) because it has no Internet connection (it will be a domain server in an isolated, secured facility) and the Start Screen search really wanted to search the Internet before searching the local machine, making the Start Screen 100% useless.
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@dkf well who can blame them?
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@PWolff said in Windows 10 search ignores exe files:
dir /s filenamepattern
Which happens to be the way I use most often for searching files / folders under Windows 7 ff.find '/cygdrive/c/Program Files' 'k*.exe'
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@mott555 Luckily that can be reconfigured. I have to tell every machine to not search the internet when I'm using the Start Menu.
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Windows 10 has been mistake after mistake. Ironically enough, MSFT attempting to avoid having to support an OS that's a decade old has lead to people gutting the update function on their current OS which just amplifies the problem. Windows 7 has become the new Windows XP.
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@cartman82 Interestingly, tools where the executable starts with the lettter "k" are completely ignored!
@Onyx said in Windows 10 search ignores exe files:
@cartman82 Stupid hypothesis...
A way to stop
kernel32.exe
from showing up? I seem to remember it was called something like that?My first thought was that maybe M$ wanted to hide their update and hotfix executables from searches. As I recall, those are all named kb#########.exe (I guess for Knowledge Base?). This is still a really stupid way to do it, though.