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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.


that's a huge pet peeve of mine too, and i can't even begin to guess what they heck they're doing. maybe an unstable sorting algorithm?

  "tel" -> "telegram"
  "tele" -> "telegram uninstaller"


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.


This actually makes sense, although it's absurd behavior.


  "teleg" -> Web search for "telegraph"
  "telegr" -> Search for "telegr" in Outlook Web Emails
  "telegra" -> Web search: did you mean "Telstra"?
  "telegram" -> No results found


Try having a non-English Windows.

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.

Or vice versa.


This was very useful when I supported a German office... search up the settings you need in English!


mmc no results .. put a period after it and suddenly it realizes you want to open mmc




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