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Thing is search seemed fine in Windows 7. They broke it in 8, fixed it in 8.1 and now it’s apparently broke again.
Wish they’d quit fixing what isn’t broken.
Apparently I'm unmitigated trash and not Windows 10 Search.
Go to search, type "index"
An applet called "Indexing Options" will appear, open it.
This is an application I have never in my life seen before in Windows and I've used every version since WFW 3.11
Click "Modify"
Here's a list of all your drives. I checked every single one of those suckers. Not even my boot drive was checked for indexing and its a 2.2 GB/s read SSD...
So I'm not entirely trash, but whoever wrote those defaults needs to be fired... wth Windows 10...
ATM its "Indexing" and it's at around 30,000 items. Before I checked all the drives, it was at 5,000. it says 'Items' not files, folders, but 'items'.
I will report back when its done to see if it fixes my start menu searching problems.
Don't forget about the Filters > Folders ... After I indexed my D: drive, I couldn't figure out why it wasn't finding anything on it, until I realized I had to choose the Folder Filter ... lol
Note: You can also do .... folders: search term
Actually that 'Indexing Options' was introduced in Windows 7 and can be found (and used) exactly as you describe.
SevenForums | Windows 7: Index Locations - Add or Remove
I’ve noticed instances where it can’t find things but I rarely use it cause I know where my data is.
So now its at 420,000 items indexed and still does not find applications in the start menu. The filter setting is set to "all" btw.
Handily finds any music, searches includes metadata identifiers as well. Humm... Result is the same wether or not "My Device History" is switched on or off.
I'm not sure this is an Indexing problem.
I have Indexing disabled in W7 and it will still find Files, Folders and Programs.
It will also find items based on their Properties (e.g. Author, Title, etc.).
However it occasionally behaves the way the OP describes in the first post (i.e. you can be looking at a file that Windows can't find, even if you search the location it's in).
Note:
I never search for content inside of files.
Try Ransack. It searches inside documents as well as folder names etc. and is lightening fast.