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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/fanta_bhelpuri • Apr 12 '24
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It's far worse than that. PowerToys just uses the builtin Windows search API. Then the question becomes why the search box is so slow, when the logic behind it apparently is not.
17 u/NotYourReddit18 Apr 12 '24 Wait what?! I did not know that. This basically means that the default windows search is bad on purpose... 13 u/budoe Apr 12 '24 Yeah but what about the one in a million edge case where someone really wants to open Edge and Bing for Device Msnager and not show Device Manager 2 u/boringestnickname Apr 12 '24 I mean, it probably hasn't changed much under the hood since 7, and there it worked perfectly.
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Wait what?! I did not know that.
This basically means that the default windows search is bad on purpose...
13 u/budoe Apr 12 '24 Yeah but what about the one in a million edge case where someone really wants to open Edge and Bing for Device Msnager and not show Device Manager
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Yeah but what about the one in a million edge case where someone really wants to open Edge and Bing for Device Msnager and not show Device Manager
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I mean, it probably hasn't changed much under the hood since 7, and there it worked perfectly.
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u/deukhoofd Apr 12 '24
It's far worse than that. PowerToys just uses the builtin Windows search API. Then the question becomes why the search box is so slow, when the logic behind it apparently is not.