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by deng15 hours ago |
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upvoteby stevage15 hours ago|
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Not just me then? Those integrated search features have been around for so long, and always irritating. I use macOS. Same problem. Searching your computer or searching the web are fundamentally different tasks. I'm curious if anyone actually approaches them the same.
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upvoteby icedrift13 hours ago|
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I don't like that default on mac either but in their defense it's super easy to customize. I turned off all but applications and my documents folder for spotlight search.
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upvoteby int0x299 hours ago|
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Last I used OSX (the version prior to the current latest IIRC) not all of the "suggestions" could be turned off
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upvoteby benced14 hours ago|
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I think most computer users dislike this but I see a ton of normal folks do this, they don't have the same conceptual boundaries folks on this site do (myself included).
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upvoteby solid_fuel9 hours ago|
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Yeah, but is that a good thing? I think the lack of those conceptual boundaries are exactly why computers are so difficult to learn for some people. Access to web services, and the services themselves, still aren’t reliable enough to support this idea of a completely transparent computer experience where you don’t need to know what machine a file is on.
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upvoteby wnevets15 hours ago|
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Its one of the first things I turn off.
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upvoteby lloydatkinson14 hours ago|
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How? I feel like every time I do my ~1 yearly Windows reinstall I need to google it and then alter half a dozen registry keys and a bunch of group policy settings, and some of them are the "old" settings now replaced with something even more vaguely named (probably on purpose).
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upvoteby cmoski29 minutes ago|
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There are options in Group Policy editor that you will want to disable.
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upvoteby ray_v13 hours ago|
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Ok, I'll bite ... why are you reinstalling and reconfiguring windows on a regular, yearly basis?
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upvoteby 0cf8612b2e1e10 hours ago|
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I also reinstall fresh Linux every year or two. Forces you to confront all of the cruft that can accumulate.
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upvoteby alternatetwo10 hours ago|
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Seriously. My current Windows installs are >15 years old upgraded all the way back from Vista …
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upvoteby ffsm85 hours ago|
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Mine was from websites 7 days I think. Randomly stopped booting a month ago (bsod after updates).

Switched to cachyos - I've spoken with at least 5 people who have had the same bsod after updates situation in the last 6 months. If windows at least embraced proper update techniques like with immutable Linux - and enough polish to make the random bsod loop after updates impossible to accur without hardware damage id likely go back for my gaming rig at least - but right now, it feels like garbage ngl

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upvoteby qingcharles7 hours ago|
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How is that even still working?

I've used Windows as my primary desktop for ~35 years and I do my absolute best to housekeep, but I still need to reinstall about once a year or so. I'm militant about installing almost nothing on my primary PC and putting all the janky apps on another PC via RDP too.

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upvoteby jodrellblank13 minutes ago|
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The computer I'm writing this on, the earliest things showing in Control Panel were installed in February 2012. It's not a rarely used clean machine, it's a daily use home computer/plaything with a lot of stuff installed/removed over the years from application suites to dev environments and esolangs, to editors, viewers, inspectors, emulators, hypervisors, browsers, chat and streaming clients, game stores, networking tools.

Why wouldn't it still work?

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upvoteby ray_v6 hours ago|
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Didn't someone film or document a in-place upgrade process from dos all the way up to a modern version of Windows?

edit: oh, here it is!

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/can-upgrade-ms-dos-6-22-window...

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upvoteby theandrewbailey11 hours ago|
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Didn't most people stop doing that when they moved to XP?
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upvoteby Neywiny10 hours ago|
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Honestly I should. Registry and stuff gets cluttered. Programs don't uninstall cleanly, or they change settings I can't find. On one machine I somehow set it up as a wifi print server or something and for the life of me couldn't find a way to turn it off. But it's such a hassle to setup a computer.
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upvoteby eviks6 hours ago|
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What are the practical issues with "cluttered" registry? But also, you can use special apps to track installations and do advanced uninstallations for ~clean uninstalls. Likewise, you could even spend time tracking settings. So yes, still a hassle, but nothing comparable to setting/reinstalling everything from scratch, that's just pure waste
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upvoteby Neywiny1 hours ago|
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Maybe I shouldn't have said cluttered. More like programs mess with things and don't always put them back. There are a lot of Microsoft support forum posts that had to reinstall Windows to fix weird issues that only started after the install
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upvoteby 7bit3 hours ago|
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Cluttered registry does not impact performance.

Unclean uninstalled programs also don't impact performance. Unless it really isn't uninstalled and still runs in the background, but that can easily be fixed by a person competent enough to reinstall Windows once a year.

Settings you don't find, will still be not found after reinstalling Windows.

But to each their own...

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upvoteby Neywiny1 hours ago|
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In my case it's not about performance, it's about usability and disk space. And again, that time I somehow started a WiFi access point and couldn't find anything online to turn it off. That laptop also at some point had the new folder option get removed from the right click menu. I had to copy/paste one. There are a lot of weird things that can happen over the years.
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upvoteby aksss12 hours ago|
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Click Start, type something to bring up search results, click the kabob in the top right (...), click "Search Settings", disable "Show search highlights".
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upvoteby HaZeust12 hours ago|
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Ha! This is the first time I've even tried the Win10 Search bar in months after constant disappointment from it, and it doesn't even load for me nowadays:

https://imgur.com/a/tkdeOVk

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