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 Forum: Classic Start Menu   Topic: Please provide a way to disable Categories for search

Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2015 1:50 pm 

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The fact that the searches happen separately aren't really a concern for the user, is it? My two request are 1. An option to wait until the search (all searches?) finishes and then show everything, 2. An option to group the search results from the different categories into one list so they can all b...

 Forum: Classic Start Menu   Topic: Please provide a way to disable Categories for search

Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2015 1:20 pm 

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Bringing up this topic again. Could you please reconsider adding an option to use the old search from 3.6.8? For me the old way has no disadvantages, and the following advantages: 1. My most searched items are brought to the top, regardless of category. 2. It's faster, since it only draws the result...

 Forum: Classic Start Menu   Topic: Please provide a way to disable Categories for search

Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2014 1:15 pm 

Replies: 10
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People who use programs more often (me included, I "only" search for settings a few times a day) will still get their mostly searched for programs at the top, won't they? Anyway, I just downgraded, and it immediately feels much smoother (and even faster even though both are a fraction of a...

 Forum: Classic Start Menu   Topic: Please provide a way to disable Categories for search

Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2014 7:58 am 

Replies: 10
Views: 27772


So you won't even give us the option to choose to sacrifice a little search speed in favor of saving a lot more time (and frustration) by getting the correct top results? As for search speed, well, for me the old way was effectively faster, because now the results "window" keeps resizing a...

 Forum: Classic Start Menu   Topic: Please provide a way to disable Categories for search

Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2014 9:13 pm 

Replies: 10
Views: 27772


The new search categories is a disaster for me. I search for settings a lot, but now there are lots of program matches for my short substring searches that make the "Track frequency of use" setting completely useless, as "programs" are always put above "settings". Could...

 Forum: Classic Start Menu   Topic: Thin vertical taskbar in W8

 Post subject: Thin vertical taskbar in W8
Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2013 4:27 am 

Replies: 1
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There is a hack to get the Windows 7 vertical taskbar as thin as the horizontal one (when small icons are used):

http://www.eightforums.com/customizatio ... skbar.html

However, this doesn't work in Windows 8. Can you do something about that?
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