David AmadorI 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.
Pedro Pais@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.
smashmaster0045@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
as for not being able to find it by vscode that's def annoying
wicast@djlink do you have a shortcut at %AppData%\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Visual Studio Code?
Daniel Ludwig@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?)
Amicable Animal@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 :|
Miguel Fontoura@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
Jesse Chounard@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 Since Windows 8, yes. But it still suuuuuuucks. :P
Carlos Lisboa@djlink powertoys has an nifty utility that solves those problems ☺️
Strange Dot Machine@djlink windows source code