Start Menu and Searching

[Tim]

There has been some discussion here about Vista dropping the All Programs
menu that displays out to the side in favor of a scroll-down menu.
Supposedly, this was done because we now have a Search box. However, the
Search doesn't always find what I need. For example, some of my programs
are not really programs, but shortcuts. Half-Life 2 games, for example, can
only be run from the desktop by using a shortcut. These shortcuts are never
displayed in a search (even though some of them are actually pinned to the
Start Menu).

Also, it would be nice if the Search would return results from partial
words. For example, typing "tunes" will not turn up iTunes. This is
something that MS's competitors' search products all have (I use X1
regularly at work).

I generally have over 100 items installed in the All Programs Menu, and have
a robust search is going to be important.

 

[Guest]

it would be nice if the Search would return results from partial
words. For example, typing "tunes" will not turn up iTunes. This is
something that MS's competitors' search products all have (I use X1
regularly at work).

Search is fully configurable.
Go to Control Panel
Press Alt
Tools menu
Folder Options
Search tab
Find Partial match

 

[Tim]

"Find Partial Match" is already checked. I think that allows you to get a
result if you only type in one complete word of many. For example, if I
type in "easy" is returns "Windows Easy Transfer". But this doesn't work if
I type in a partial word that doesn't include the beginning letters, such as
"tunes" for iTunes.

 

[Rock]

There has been some discussion here about Vista dropping the All Programs
menu that displays out to the side in favor of a scroll-down menu.
Supposedly, this was done because we now have a Search box. However, the
Search doesn't always find what I need. For example, some of my programs
are not really programs, but shortcuts. Half-Life 2 games, for example,
can only be run from the desktop by using a shortcut. These shortcuts are
never displayed in a search (even though some of them are actually pinned
to the Start Menu).

Also, it would be nice if the Search would return results from partial
words. For example, typing "tunes" will not turn up iTunes. This is
something that MS's competitors' search products all have (I use X1
regularly at work).

I generally have over 100 items installed in the All Programs Menu, and
have a robust search is going to be important.

Post the feedback using the feedback icon on the desktop. It won't do much
good here.

 

[Guest]

"Find Partial Match" is already checked.

select "Use natural language search" from the settings and it works