Comments on: Insight into Vista’s Start menu search

By: Joe DeMarco

Joe DeMarco — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:00:03 +0000

Re: The Instant Search Box on the Startup Menu. Until recently, if I selected an item from the displayed list for detailed examination, the list remained intact and I could go back to it to examine another item. Now that has changed: when I select an item the rest of the list disappears and I need to retype the “search for” item to restore the list. That’s very inconvenient. Can you tell me how to restore that feature?

By: da Vinci

da Vinci — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 18:29:41 +0000

I agree with Wez Hind. I just switched from XP to Vista and hate the extra clicks and typing to get to where I want.

By: Wez Hind

Wez Hind — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 07:22:37 +0000

Yep, completely agree with Mike H.
Though I do require an indexed search to find my music and media – I only use and require it when I open my media library..I don’t want it on my start menu… I want to START things from my START menu, not SEARCH for them.

Now for those who are going, you just haven’t tried it. I HAVE AND I HATE IT. If you like it then fine, you can use it. I don’t like it and I don’t use it SO why can’t I remove the bloody thing…I don’t like being forced to use a keyboard to find applications or documents each time, especially when i used to do it more efficiently with a mouse.

old way: click click ahh lovely my program is opening
new way: click (start button) click (focus on search) move hand from mouse to keyboard – type type type type type – move hand from keyboard back to mouse – (click on item found that I want – IF it has found it) ahh at fecking last my program is opening

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Top 10 Shortcuts to Improve your Vista Experience | Palaestra Training — Thu, 15 May 2008 13:28:16 +0000

[...] As I type, Vista’s start menu displays real time, full-text search across multiple locations: the start menu, my user folder, my favorites and browser history, [...]

By: Mike H

Mike H — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 00:20:53 +0000

Godsend? I beg to differ. I think it is a waist of system resources. I don’t need an indexed search because I know where I leave my files. At least you can disable this feature! I’m still searching for a way to remove the Search Bar from the Start Menu since it is quite a nuisance. Why does every one think index searching is the best thing next to slice bread?

Linux has had it for years, locate.

By: Dario de Judicibus

Dario de Judicibus — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 22:11:06 +0000

Instant Search simply does not work to find text inside files. The only way is Google Desktop. The new Vista feature is useless and cumbersome.

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Vista Taskbar Goodness « i like ellipses… — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 18:19:58 +0000

[...] 1) Instant Search [...]

By: michaelc

michaelc — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 01:57:25 +0000

Vista Search Bar for XP
-uses windows desktop search(download it)
Link:
http://www.slylabs.com/node/57

By: Flex

Flex — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 10:34:03 +0000

Whatever you have made my day… no no, my YEAR. Me and the whole software dep too with this program. In fact it is better than the vista search, I’m totally impressed, I can put vista back to sleep now… )

By: Coding Horror

Coding Horror — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 08:34:45 +0000

Typing Trumps Pointing

Windows Vista gets criticized a lot in the press, mostly for not being OS X. Some of the criticisms are valid. It is terribly late. And the feature list has grown less and less impressive as the development process…