Comments on: Insight into Vista’s Start menu search http://www.istartedsomething.com/20061211/vista-start-menu-search/ All the stuff about Microsoft and technology you haven't read anywhere else. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:02:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Wez Hind http://www.istartedsomething.com/20061211/vista-start-menu-search/#comment-144771 Wez Hind Thu, 11 Aug 2011 00:01:44 +0000 http://www.istartedsomething.com/20061211/vista-start-menu-search/#comment-144771 Well, I finally discovered a way of taking back MY start menu... the following link will give you the OPTION to do the same :-) http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/ Well, I finally discovered a way of taking back MY start menu… the following link will give you the OPTION to do the same :-)

http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/

]]> By: Wez Hind http://www.istartedsomething.com/20061211/vista-start-menu-search/#comment-124144 Wez Hind Wed, 21 Apr 2010 05:26:08 +0000 http://www.istartedsomething.com/20061211/vista-start-menu-search/#comment-124144 Hello again, Since my original post I have used the search box on the start menu a few times (maybe 10 since last post) and on those occasions I have found it handy. HOWEVER, I still would like the ability to remove it from the Start Menu - why can't I? I just can't see the point on using it regularly when it still involves swapping from mouse to keyboard to mouse again. I do feel that it is an attempt by Microsoft to force me into using a technology of theirs that I had already tried, not liked and then discarded - namely Microsoft Desktop Search applications. To my mind, it's a bit like signing up for a GMail account (for instance), trying it, not liking it, closing it and then a while later you find that a desktop version of Gmail has been installed as the default Email client on your PC. Can you imagine the outcry, should Google (for instance) force applications upon us that we had already declined to use! I don't mind Microsoft offering me free programs - thanks - but it really annoys me that I can't remove them should I not find them useful enough to be in the main menu level of my GUI. Surely, the search component itself defy the anti-trust rulings, by not offering you another application ie. Google's Desktop search or Copernic or even another version of the Microsoft search offerings. Hello again,

Since my original post I have used the search box on the start menu a few times (maybe 10 since last post) and on those occasions I have found it handy. HOWEVER, I still would like the ability to remove it from the Start Menu – why can’t I? I just can’t see the point on using it regularly when it still involves swapping from mouse to keyboard to mouse again. I do feel that it is an attempt by Microsoft to force me into using a technology of theirs that I had already tried, not liked and then discarded – namely Microsoft Desktop Search applications. To my mind, it’s a bit like signing up for a GMail account (for instance), trying it, not liking it, closing it and then a while later you find that a desktop version of Gmail has been installed as the default Email client on your PC. Can you imagine the outcry, should Google (for instance) force applications upon us that we had already declined to use!
I don’t mind Microsoft offering me free programs – thanks – but it really annoys me that I can’t remove them should I not find them useful enough to be in the main menu level of my GUI. Surely, the search component itself defy the anti-trust rulings, by not offering you another application ie. Google’s Desktop search or Copernic or even another version of the Microsoft search offerings.

]]> By: dunc http://www.istartedsomething.com/20061211/vista-start-menu-search/#comment-123900 dunc Thu, 15 Apr 2010 22:24:55 +0000 http://www.istartedsomething.com/20061211/vista-start-menu-search/#comment-123900 Proper way to use start menu search: I'm typing..typing, hit windows key, type first 3 letters of program..hit enter..program starts.. EZ :) Proper way to use start menu search: I’m typing..typing, hit windows key, type first 3 letters of program..hit enter..program starts..
EZ :)

]]> By: Joe DeMarco http://www.istartedsomething.com/20061211/vista-start-menu-search/#comment-95995 Joe DeMarco Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:00:03 +0000 http://www.istartedsomething.com/20061211/vista-start-menu-search/#comment-95995 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? 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 http://www.istartedsomething.com/20061211/vista-start-menu-search/#comment-77318 da Vinci Sun, 19 Jul 2009 18:29:41 +0000 http://www.istartedsomething.com/20061211/vista-start-menu-search/#comment-77318 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. 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 http://www.istartedsomething.com/20061211/vista-start-menu-search/#comment-70605 Wez Hind Tue, 17 Mar 2009 07:22:37 +0000 http://www.istartedsomething.com/20061211/vista-start-menu-search/#comment-70605 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 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

]]> By: Top 10 Shortcuts to Improve your Vista Experience | Palaestra Training http://www.istartedsomething.com/20061211/vista-start-menu-search/#comment-60902 Top 10 Shortcuts to Improve your Vista Experience | Palaestra Training Thu, 15 May 2008 13:28:16 +0000 http://www.istartedsomething.com/20061211/vista-start-menu-search/#comment-60902 [...] 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, [...] [...] 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 http://www.istartedsomething.com/20061211/vista-start-menu-search/#comment-44419 Mike H Sat, 15 Dec 2007 00:20:53 +0000 http://www.istartedsomething.com/20061211/vista-start-menu-search/#comment-44419 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. 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 http://www.istartedsomething.com/20061211/vista-start-menu-search/#comment-39274 Dario de Judicibus Wed, 03 Oct 2007 22:11:06 +0000 http://www.istartedsomething.com/20061211/vista-start-menu-search/#comment-39274 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. 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.

]]> By: Vista Taskbar Goodness « i like ellipses… http://www.istartedsomething.com/20061211/vista-start-menu-search/#comment-37571 Vista Taskbar Goodness « i like ellipses… Wed, 05 Sep 2007 18:19:58 +0000 http://www.istartedsomething.com/20061211/vista-start-menu-search/#comment-37571 [...] 1) Instant Search [...] [...] 1) Instant Search [...]

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