Does anyone know why search is such a ****ing pain on Windows 10 now? Time was, you could just type in the search bar (beside the start button) and it would search your PC. Now it goes directly to "web results", which I don't want and have not asked it to do, and which seems to be unalterable. I can type in the search bar of a specific folder, yes, but if I don't know where the file is and want to search the entire computer I have to go to the root drive and search there.

I can do that, but what then is the point of the search facility? "Type here to search"? Yeah, as long as you don't expect to find anything. Anyone else have this problem?

whats with spotify sometimes saying content not available..????

but its not just 1 songs ITS MY ENTIRE LIBARY !!!!

Blame Joe Biden.

Windows search - that's not a bug, it's a feature!

I'd rather use the command line to find what I want.

Maybe it's the way I'm reading it, but every point you make about it appears to be a negative, and then you say overall I like it? Why? Sounds like a piece of crap to me.

I don't understand half your GIFs. What's that one meant to mean? :confused:

Yeah so what? Looks more or less the same as Windows 10 search bar. The point is, does it search properly? I miss the old Windows 7 search facility. it was simple and quick, and very accurate. I don't think it even knew what the web was.

The program Everything looks good here.

https://www.makeuseof.com/windows-11...-search-tools/

A discussion on backing up data appeared in the shout box today. For those of you interested, this is a simple command you can run in windows to back up your data.

In Windows, click the start button. Type in command prompt, and select it. In the command prompt window, type this.

robocopy "d:\source folder" "g:\destination folder" *.* /PURGE /E /R:5 /W:5

This command will copy the contents of d:\source folder to my g: drive, which in this case is an external 2TB USB hard drive. If you run this command regularly, the computer will scan both folders. It will only copy files that have been changed, or don't exist. This is called a differential backup.

Very cool macro. I use SyncToy, which has been discontinued.