Re: [AFMUG] Are you reliant on searching?

2023-08-01 Thread Steve Jones
ote: > > Hey! I lose the cursor all the time. Mostly on my surface with the touch > pad. > > > > *From:* Nate Burke > *Sent:* Tuesday, August 1, 2023 8:13 AM > *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Are you reliant on searching? > > I gu

Re: [AFMUG] Are you reliant on searching?

2023-08-01 Thread Mike Hammett
ent: Monday, July 31, 2023 3:38:12 PM Subject: [AFMUG] Are you reliant on searching? We've got a new employee in his 20's. He never browses for programs off his start menu, but uses the windows search box for everything. Anything that has a search box, he types into that. I didn't even know that t

Re: [AFMUG] Are you reliant on searching?

2023-08-01 Thread Bill Prince
:13 AM *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Are you reliant on searching? I guess I'm just becoming a curmudgeon.  Just watching him do things, I'm like 'It's 2 clicks to get to the setting you want'  instead, he clicks the search button, has to move to the keyboard

Re: [AFMUG] Are you reliant on searching?

2023-08-01 Thread Trey Scarborough
Group'" Subject: [AFMUG] Are you reliant on searching? Date: Mon, Jul 31, 2023 5:46 PM A few weeks ago the Windows search box was broken for me, but I was in the middle of something where I couldn't restart my computer. That was the first time I'd used the Start Menu to open applications in 4 or 5

Re: [AFMUG] Are you reliant on searching?

2023-08-01 Thread Chuck McCown via AF
Hey! I lose the cursor all the time. Mostly on my surface with the touch pad. From: Nate Burke Sent: Tuesday, August 1, 2023 8:13 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Are you reliant on searching? I guess I'm just becoming a curmudgeon. Just watching him do

Re: [AFMUG] Are you reliant on searching?

2023-08-01 Thread Trey Scarborough
I run most of my machines on MX linux and I do the same thing. Most things I frequent are pined on my task bar, and anything else is super/windows key is bound to a search bar. If not that I just run the program from a terminal window type the first part and tab complete. I don't actually use

Re: [AFMUG] Are you reliant on searching?

2023-08-01 Thread Chuck McCown via AF
One update I need is the ability to cut and past from snip to Outlook. They broke that so now I have to save and attach the image. From: CBB - Jay Fuller Sent: Monday, July 31, 2023 7:37 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Are you reliant on searching? My

Re: [AFMUG] Are you reliant on searching?

2023-08-01 Thread Nate Burke
- From: dmmoff...@gmail.com To: "'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group'" Subject: [AFMUG] Are you reliant on searching? Date: Mon, Jul 31, 2023 5:46 PM A few weeks ago the Windows search box was broken for me, but I was in the middle of something where I couldn't restart m

Re: [AFMUG] Are you reliant on searching?

2023-07-31 Thread CBB - Jay Fuller
My windows search feature has also been periodically crashing. Having to use start menu. Wish they would fix w an update. - Reply message - From: dmmoff...@gmail.com To: "'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group'" Subject: [AFMUG] Are you reliant on searching? Date: Mon, Jul 31, 20

Re: [AFMUG] Are you reliant on searching?

2023-07-31 Thread Josh Luthman
Same as Bill. For anything I repeat regularly, I find a way to automate. compmgmt.msc opens up a lot of goodies Not sure what else you would do in Windows if not in either of those two... On Mon, Jul 31, 2023 at 7:59 PM Bill Prince wrote: > I don't do either. Generally, I type {window key}-r

Re: [AFMUG] Are you reliant on searching?

2023-07-31 Thread Bill Prince
I don't do either. Generally, I type {window key}-r and type the first few letters of what I want (like "word" for word,or "ncpa.cpl" for the network control panel, and so on. I don't like to waste time mousing around. All keyboard all the time. -- bp part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com On Mon, Jul 31,

Re: [AFMUG] Are you reliant on searching?

2023-07-31 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
I've been tapping on the windows button and typing what I've been looking for for years. Don't even know where lots of things are in the start menu anymore. Under windows 10, I did have most of my often used programs pinned to the start menu, so for those I'd click on start and them the

Re: [AFMUG] Are you reliant on searching?

2023-07-31 Thread dmmoffett
and click on "device manager". I don't generally search for settings in a device. Maybe I'll try it. -Original Message- From: AF On Behalf Of Nate Burke Sent: Monday, July 31, 2023 4:38 PM To: Animal Farm Subject: [AFMUG] Are you reliant on searching? We've got a new employee i

Re: [AFMUG] Are you reliant on searching?

2023-07-31 Thread Steve Jones
With windows its becoming about the only way to get to stuff any more, they make everything 30 clicks deep now. Start menu isnt natively directory driven. Same with phones and the billions of icons, its quicker just to go to search for the app. Its bullshit.. change. Kids always messing with the

[AFMUG] Are you reliant on searching?

2023-07-31 Thread Nate Burke
We've got a new employee in his 20's. He never browses for programs off his start menu, but uses the windows search box for everything. Anything that has a search box, he types into that. I didn't even know that the Grandstream UCM's had a search function, but he only uses that to find