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In Windows 7 most of the time when I needed to open one of my docs, I just
typed the name in the search box. In Windows 8 you have to click an additional
button that you want to search for files. With classic shell I found no way to
do that.
Correct. The search in Classic Shell only searches the contents of the start
menu and the PATH environment variable. This is done for performance reasons.
Does anyone know if there's any plans to have Classic Start menu search for documents? My Win7 machine default menu has no performance issues doing that search, and I find it to be extremely useful.
And it's filtering only .lnk and .exe files I guess? I have no performance
issues here. If the files are not cached in the 16GB memory, it will have to
search on my 560MB/s SSD drive. I've added the documents folder to the system
path and it's still finding the docs.
I mean "it's still not finding the docs"
(Where is the edit message button in this forum)
OK, to be more precise:
All contents of the Start Menu folders are searched
All contents of the Control Panel are searched
All contents of the Administrative Tools are searched
All contents of the God Mode are searched
The PATH is searched (but not the sub-folders) for EXE, COM, BAT, CMD, MSC and
CPL
Thanks! With this info I've found a work around.
First I thought to outsmart the program by using
cd \Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu
mklink /j Documents C:\Users\<user>\Documents
to create a virtual Documents folder in the start menu. Unfortunately that's
didn't work either.
But I could just move/paste the Documents directory to
C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu. Windows 8
automatically changed the library link. After this I have an extra My
Documents folder in the left side of the menu.
And as I suspected (with 1100 files in there), no performance issues when
searching. Actually it responds with a hit list way way faster than Window 7
ever did.
Well good news for you. Now the latest public beta version of Classic Shell which is available from the home page has full Windows Search integration, including document search. Try it if you are interested.
Does this mean that now it will return search results for ALL drives and folders that are specified via the Indexed Locations sub-dialog of the Indexing Options main dialog? That is, exactly like the way that search works under Windows 7?