I like Windows but I feel the start menu search is getting worse & worse, can't even find VSCode by vscode, code.exe etc, it's installed. Everything app finds it quickly, the start menu finds it online, even knows it's VSCode but doesn't tell me where it is on my own computer.
problem solved, adding a shortcut to desktop and now it shows.
@djlink I usually fix this by having programs show up in the start menu instead of the desktop. I sort of stopped using the desktop at all. Though I'm guessing you already have that as installers tend to do it by default.
@djlink You probably have to add program files to your search and indexing for that to happen and I think there's a good reason it's not there by default.
as for not being able to find it by vscode that's def annoying
@djlink do you have a shortcut at %AppData%\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Visual Studio Code?
@wicast does't seem to have one, so it just searches one this folder?
@djlink yep, you can try to put a shortcut under "Star Menu" folder .I checked the "create desktop shortcut" option while installing, not sure if this had any effect or not
@djlink Start typing "Vis...", then continue adding more characters to get past all the essential first matches, like "Blend for Visual Studio 2019", or "Start Experimental Instance of Visual Studio 2019" (WAT?)

@djlink The search is absolutely gubbins now. Half the time it finds random files rather than applications. "My Computer" doesn't get you to anything useful any more either.

I'm sure everything will be fine when they replace it for Bing AI though :|

@djlink strange, If I type "code" it shows up right up there
@fontoura someone told me it' has to do when there are no shortcuts on start menu folder, so like it doesn't even search on the harddrive uff
@djlink Even after they improved the search, I still use Launchy. It's so much better. It's one of the first things I install on a new Windows machine. (With ninite, of course.)
@djlink powertoys has an nifty utility that solves those problems ☺️