Windows 10 1909 File Explorer Search issue

Anonymous
2019-10-22T08:53:25+00:00

What happened to explorer search? Unable to paste the copied

file name to search for as it was in previous versions. I have to

manually type the file name and press Enter. This is terrible! Why does Microsoft only make things worse with each new version ?!

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-04-07T13:33:38+00:00

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-04-07T09:31:10+00:00

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-02-07T21:28:32+00:00

    **** does DPI as a verb mean?

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-02-01T18:12:24+00:00

    Now that this bug has been solved (it only took MS almost 3 months to solve), my question is: Why a unified search? what is the advantage and why complicate straightforward and simple things?

    In my humble opinion, File Explorer - as the name 'used' to suggest - is for local files and folders while Internet Explorer was for internet-related searches; Simple, straightforward and easy... No salad, no mess and no confusion.

    The only explanation for this useless integration is to gain points for "Bing", which people either hate or simply don't use.

    Totally with you on this.  The old way was far superior.  I don't need or want a unified search.  If MS wants to provide that, make it part of the Start menu.  The search in File Explorer should only search files in that folder + sub-folders.  They decided to 'make it better' (translation: to unnecessarily complicate it), not to mention that it didn't work properly, causing people to move to a non-Microsoft solution (which turns out is way better).

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-02-01T17:05:37+00:00

    As one of the OPs on this problem, I can confirm that MS solution is too little too late, as due to this problem, I investigated how badly indexing is implemented by MS and I too found "Everything".

    Everything is quite simply the best EVER file searching tool for Windows.

    My 20 million files are indexed in a small database updated in real time and searching takes 0 seconds after things are indexed.

    I will be donating and honestly, MS should publicly apologize for this prio 1 fault and how they kept it unfixed for MONTHS.

    Unbelievable. A joke.

    Hey Pedritux - Thanks for validating my find ...no offense to Microsoft but - I simply HAD to find a solution. I hope many people here can benefit from "Everything" and I encourage them to consider donating to the developer if they do :))).

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