Windows 10 help: Directory with all top-level HDD directories?

[Weisshund]

Did not see it suggested

Why not make a library called My Stuff i can never find
And then add the appropriate folders to that library

That is what the library feature is for

[iamthewalrus_3]

@scr4

Windows search works very well for me.

Well, obviously you had the foresight to not name your folders things that overlap with Self-Storage companies.

Are you sure all your drives have been indexed? When you go to Indexing Options, does it say “Indexing complete”?

It does.

@Reply

Windows search has some stupid algorithm. It’s not an indexing problem, it’s a problem of what it chooses to float to the top. If you type “public” and then choose “filters” in the upper right and “folders”, it’ll be right there… but that’s a lot of extra steps.

Yeah, this is the thing. But it’s several additional clicks. So, not a great solution. And, honestly, search isn’t always the best answer anyway. I don’t always remember if I named my tax records dir Financial, Money, or Tax Stuff, but when it’s one of a few things in Documents, I can pick it out of the lineup fast enough.

@scr4

Try going to the “Cortana & Search settings” and unchecking the “History View”, that seems to have the same effect now.

It doesn’t seem to for me.

Whatever. Search isn’t a good solution for me. The library thing is.

[Weisshund]

click start
click computer
left side tool panel right click Library
pick NEW > Library
Give it a name

Right click new library, left click properties
click INCLUDE FOLDER to your hearts content

[iamthewalrus_3]

@Weisshund

click start
click computer
left side tool panel right click Library
pick NEW > Library
Give it a name

Right click new library, left click properties
click INCLUDE FOLDER to your hearts content

Did you read the thread? This was suggested way above and I already tried it and reported that it (mostly) worked.

[Weisshund]

@iamthewalrus_3

Did you read the thread? This was suggested way above and I already tried it and reported that it (mostly) worked.

Ok.
If you add just the drives themselves, you will get all top level folders in same window
or is that what you did already?

[Reply]

@iamthewalrus_3

Whatever. Search isn’t a good solution for me. The library thing is.

I getcha. I feel bad for the Search team, though, lol. They must’ve spent months making a good, fast, all-indexing system to rival Spotlight on the Mac. Now you can finally find anything on your Windows PC with a few keystrokes, less than a second later.

And then the Bing team comes along and goes “Noooooo, forget that, the users don’t care. They need to see that BING is better than Google! They don’t need their folders. Give them Bing! More Bing! More Cortana! Hide their stuff below the internet search. They don’t need to know their own files. Give them more Bing!”

Sigh.

[iamthewalrus_3]

@Reply

I getcha. I feel bad for the Search team, though, lol. They must’ve spent months making a good, fast, all-indexing system to rival Spotlight on the Mac. Now you can finally find anything on your Windows PC with a few keystrokes, less than a second later.

And then the Bing team comes along and goes “Noooooo, forget that, the users don’t care. They need to see that BING is better than Google! They don’t need their folders. Give them Bing! More Bing! More Cortana! Hide their stuff below the internet search. They don’t need to know their own files. Give them more Bing!”

Sigh.

Yep. That is sad. One more potentially good product crudded up by a desire to win other platforms.

[mhendo]

It’s easy to avoid the internet search component, though. Just open Windows Explorer, select This PC so it will search all your drives, and use the search feature in Explorer. You still get all the great indexing and search results, without any of the extraneous web crap.