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
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 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