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Windows 11 - File Explorer - Search Contents fails
"One person had a theory that it might work better on computers that upgrade to 11 than ones that start on 11...that some little file might be in 10 and stay there but be missing in new installations of straight 11. No idea if that has merit."
On this point, I can add data. I have two computers, of different makes, both bought around Jan. 1, one with 11 installed and one with 10, and I upgraded to 11 right away. I'm pretty sure that both searched normally when I first got them, and both at some point stopped searching folders properly. I presume this change happened after updates in the one case, and after installing 11, or after additional updates, in the other case. Someone else can speculate what this means, if anything.
anyone know if this issue is fixed in the current stable (non-beta) version of Windows 11? I would like to get out of beta, but not if this is still broken in the regular release.
Still broken for me.
- I was directed to download a Beta version of Windows 11, which has helped to some extent.
The file handling capabilities of Windows 11 have been extended with all kinds of dinky extras but still when the core function is not reliable this hardly helps. I find that often the search function returns no results on the first try, but after refreshing the page a couple of times it does. Weird .... and very annoying. MS have been very helpful trying to fix the problem, but alas I think they are as confounded as we are.- yeah, I downloaded the beta as well. It DID solve this problem, which is great. But NOW I have traded this problem for ANOTHER...
With the Beta version of windows, I cannot come back from sleep mode. So, I turned that off and turned on SCREENSAVER... gag. My monitor now turns off after 20 minutes, and SOMETIMES I can get back in while other times I still have to reboot.
MB1000No improvement. No real hopes that it will. I'm using a third-party software called DocFinder that seems to do the trick, though not quite as elegantly as File Explorer did on my old pre-11 computer. Sad.
- I'm using Copernic Desktop Search that I used to use a long time ago. It works like charm.
