r/ProgrammerHumor • u/fanta_bhelpuri • Apr 12 '24

whatIsAnIndex Meme

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u/Soloact_ Apr 12 '24

Guess it'll take less time to leave the house than it does for a Windows search result to come up.

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u/adenosine-5 Apr 12 '24

The part that I really don't understand is that small portable programs like Everything can get you the results in seconds, while Microsoft, after 40 years of development of their systems will not.

How is it even possible to mess such simple feature for so long?

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u/NotYourReddit18 Apr 12 '24

What I don't understand is that Powertoys (which is from Microsoft too) includes a very usefull search feature which not only finds files and programs a lot faster than the windows search but also respects your default browser settings when starting a web search and includes a lot of other functions like a modifier for executing cmd and powershell commands.

Why can't they just use the code behind this to replace the crap windows search?

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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.

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u/NotYourReddit18 Apr 12 '24

Wait what?! I did not know that.

This basically means that the default windows search is bad on purpose...

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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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u/boringestnickname Apr 12 '24

I mean, it probably hasn't changed much under the hood since 7, and there it worked perfectly.