Oh dear. My stock, clean Windows install with its default config absolutely poops the bed when trying to perform basic search/retrieval tasks (I'm talking things like launching an app I started to type the name of after hitting the windows key). Whenever I've dug into what it's doing, I've found it busy doing more important things like indexing my temp directories, or node_modules, or ensuring that all of my malware service executables are eliminated.
It's a nice headline feature but I really can't see it having a positive impact on the default Windows user experience.
Mine usually is pretty responsive about it, but the results searching in the start menu are strange. I start typing the name of something, what I want pops up, I type one too many characters (still a substring of the correct name) and suddenly it decides something completely different is the best match.
I always assumed there was some logic like "well I presented 'telegram' and they kept typing so 'telegram' must be incorrect" even if the time between those was less than human reaction time.
"teleg" -> Web search for "telegraph"
"telegr" -> Search for "telegr" in Outlook Web Emails
"telegra" -> Web search: did you mean "Telstra"?
"telegram" -> No results found
Now you have to divine the English name of a Windows app or feature, because although its name is localized when you‘ve already found it, search may or may not only look for the English name.
imo it's embarrassing that the ux was better with windows 2000 up through 7, using windows key + first 3 letters + enter gave me reliable way to jump into an app
I install startisback on any windows machine i have power over, of course on my work machine i just have to suffer but at least im getting paid while i wait for the search to settle on a result
It's a nice headline feature but I really can't see it having a positive impact on the default Windows user experience.