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Use cortana to find any file
Use cortana to find any file










  1. #USE CORTANA TO FIND ANY FILE UPDATE#
  2. #USE CORTANA TO FIND ANY FILE WINDOWS 10#
  3. #USE CORTANA TO FIND ANY FILE OFFLINE#

#USE CORTANA TO FIND ANY FILE WINDOWS 10#

The only people who might not benefit from Windows 10 are those with specific old hardware that has compatibility problems with Windows 10 and some Windows 8.1 users who have a strong personal preference for the tablet features of Windows 8.1 over Windowsġ0. To DirectX 12, the Store (which is an awesome improvement and getting more and more useful every day), Live Tiles on the start menu for news, e-mail status, weather, and everything else at a glance, better support for newer hardware, better support for multi-monitorĬonfigurations, a much improved native web browser (now that Edge includes extensions), much improved memory management, better power management (especially important for laptop users), just to touch on a few that matter to me. If you're on Windows 7, moving to 10 results in a faster, smoother, experience with access Windows 10 adds dozens (hundreds?) of usability improvements for regular keyboard and mouse users and far more for tablet users, especially those using a pen/stylus. Here with a registry entry that corrects this, or that discussion here in this and other related posts will increase the odds of Microsoft fixing this sooner rather than later. Not exactly a difficult work-around, just annoying that it's needed and I remain hopeful someone will respond That the main search box no longer searches network locations, Windows Explorer Search works perfectly, and that's accessible with a Win-E press.

use cortana to find any file

Even for this search issue, while it's annoying In spite of this flaw, bug, whatever you want to call it with Cortana, Windows 10 is by far and away the best OS Microsoft has put out, and certainly much better than any version of OS X, iOS, Linux, or Android. Surely, you know that, right? You don't actually think you're helping me, do you? If you don't have helpful information to answer the question being asked, you're just being annoying, not helpful. Really? It's like if I called tech support and you jumped on the call and started telling me that I made a mistake OK, so you're on a mission by trolling on posts looking for help with Cortana by AD users to try to convince me or others to avoid Windows 10. Just look at the sheer number of posts in Windows 10 Networking forum. It's a Statement to help others decide if to update! Win 10 terribly flawed. It's not a "vendetta" (nor a 'vendatta') against Win 10.

#USE CORTANA TO FIND ANY FILE UPDATE#

Problem discovered and posted Friday, Novem2:37 PM, thread lock atĭue to update KB3140768,Windows 10 Version 1511 Is there a way to get Windows 10 search/Cortana to use the same indexing set as Explorer or otherwise include either My Documents or perhaps any network share in the search results? Why does it think "search is still indexing", when that's clearly The indexer shows that it has 0 items left to I believe that proves they are properly indexed. Note that search works fine from within an Explorer window, where matches appear instantly. It shows a slowly rotating pair of arrows. These results may be incomplete, search is still indexing your stuff.īecause this includes all files in "My Documents" this is incredibly frustrating. that appears in the upper right, then select Files, then Search for Files. Is that right by default? Is there a way to fix this so it will also search all indexed locations?Īfter I type in a word in the name of a document I want to find, I click on the.

use cortana to find any file

In Windows 10's search box (Cortana), typing file names or file contents never finds any user files. I believe this should add local indexing, but I've never been clear how that interacts with server-side

#USE CORTANA TO FIND ANY FILE OFFLINE#

We also use Offline Files so that the files are replicated to the local computer and available when disconnected from the network.

use cortana to find any file

I use Redirected Folders on our AD domain, so all users on the network have their files stored on a central Windows 2012 R2 server, and when they log in, by Redirected Folder settings in a Group Policy, the local computer knows their My Documents folder (I had originally posted a variant on this over on the Microsoft community pages, but was referred to post here because this involves an AD domain).












Use cortana to find any file