Classic Shell no longer in development, and now open source

dalchina said:

Hi, at a guess, you may need to make sure these locations are indexed:
Attachment 205009

This may help:
Pasting this into the address bar opens a file explorer window so you can view the contents of CSC

shell:::{AFDB1F70-2A4C-11d2-9039-00C04F8EEB3E}
Attachment 205010

Having used that I found the location added to Indexed Locations. Don't know quite why...

Hey I appreciate the quick response. I think you missed the part where if I use the default start menu for windows 10, it indexes and finds my documents/desktop no problem. So it's not an indexing issue at all. It's 100% something in the program not using the CSC location. Hope this can be patched easily otherwise i'll be instructing everyone in my company to use cortana for searching.

dalchina said:

Out of curiosity, if you search using file explorer, does that succeed?

And I assume you have Classic/Open Shell configured for file search (it's optional).

Yeah, file explorer works & yes

Aztexx
Is this any help?

Classic Shell View topic - â*• How to access Cortana from Classic Start Menu

jacatdilly said:

Aztexx
Is this any help?

Classic Shell View topic - â*• How to access Cortana from Classic Start Menu

Ironically that is a very interesting work around. I'll play with it and see how I like it. Obviously it would be an added bonus if open shell could use it natively but I'll give it a shot
Thank you

While this workout is neat. It actually would be less user friendly for users than just instructing them to click on the cortana icon to search for their redirected files for the time being. I feel like it should be as simple as being able to index the C:\windows\CSC folder, but obviously there may be something i'm missing in the programming.
Thank you

Aztexx

Then you will need to go to the takeover site

Issues · Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu · GitHub

and ask for them to program in an added option for when using Win 10,
to use what you are asking, to automatically fill up the Open-Shell-Menu search view (without icon pictures).

Just installed latest version 4.4.131 , works perfect !
With a little luck its full compatible on RedStone 5 , coming next month ( its always good to be prepared !)

" It works well in the current insider build and will be needed when RS5 goes live next month. "...............good job , Im ready ......!