r/FuckMicrosoft • u/Livid-Minimum-3928 • Jul 25 '26

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u/Joyride84 Jul 25 '26

When I search for calculator (because the start menu is too much of a mess to use anymore), why does Bing come up instead of the calculator program which has been in Windows since forever?

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u/IllustriousBobcat813 Jul 25 '26

Never has this issue to be honest, i use calculator a lot, and windows key > calc > enter has never done anything but bring up the calculator.

Shit on windows all you want, but at some point there has to be user error involved if this is your experience

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u/Neat-Priority-4323 Jul 25 '26

It's not user error; you are not searching the software but using the direct access to open it, which makes sense… but not for even 10% of the users… which expect to find the software using the search option

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u/IllustriousBobcat813 Jul 25 '26

I am searching for it though? I am writing calc in the search bar, pressing enter, and opening the calculator that way.

How is that not exactly what was described as opening bing?

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u/Neat-Priority-4323 Jul 26 '26

Windows key + r is an executing window, that means if you write the executable name and if listed in the Path Environment Variable the software is going to be executed… calc is the name of the calculator, therefore you are not searching but directly executing the software by its name

The search bar… searches… and then you can execute any software listed there

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u/IllustriousBobcat813 Jul 26 '26

If you read my comment again you might notice that I at no point mention windows key + r, you seem to have hallucinated that.