Windows 11 24H2 is WORSE THAN Windows 8 | RANT:30 

Microsoft has to understand that once we power users start going to linux, and get confortable there, we are not coming back.

For me deal breaker was when 'My Computer' became 'This PC', implying that the PC is no longer mine...

its safe to say that if it wasnt for security reasons, most people would still be using windows xp and 7

I jumped off the Windows Wagon when the first foreshocks of ads being experimented with in the file browser hit us. I switched to Linux then, and it's been interesting to say the least. (Using a newbie distro, Mint, for reference.) Certain things are ridiculously easy in Linux where I had some resistance in Windows. Things like recognizing printers is done seemlessly on Linux where if it sees the device on your network it will just add it to usable devices when you go to print. I've never had an easy time setting up printers on Windows. Another odd thing was I decided to install Microsoft Office 07 under Wine, and it gave me no hassle at all over my key. I've used this software cd/key since around 2008, and when I upgraded to Windows 10 it REALLY did not want me to be able to activate it. I ended up just having to leave the key in the software, keep using it while the activation timer kept giving me warnings, and eventually it gave in and just gave me my software activation. No such fuss on Linux. Gaming on Linux really brings me back to my early days of computers for me (early 2000's in my case) where you can get most stuff to work, but you're going to have to work a little bit for it. If you stick to Steam it's really easy, but it gets more complicated when you want to run older games or mods. Thankfully the tricks you learn to get one game working will probably apply to many others. That sense of discovery really takes me back to when computers were new and exciting to me, as I didn't have everything quite figured out, and the possibilities of what the machine in front of me could do seemed endless. The biggest downside of Linux for me is definitely the hard incompatibilities. There have been certain pieces of hardware that I initially thought I wasn't going to be able to run, like my GOXLR or my PCIe capture card, but with some headache I was eventually able to get running in some capacity. The biggest hurdle being, like you said, some of the creative apps not working fully or at all on Linux. One example for me being Vegas Pro. It's not supported on Linux, and only some older versions can run under Wine, and they come with big compromises. My options then are either to go without it, keep a windows install, or learn a new editing suite. The third option is probably what Ill end up doing, but I know thats a huge timesink and ball of frustration that I have to get through right off the start. I do hope more people come to Linux. I don't think it will ever be the dominant OS, but I could see it being the one gamers use if it were to ridiculously easy to setup in 99% of games (right now it's probably 70% thanks to steam), and if the performance gap on Windows it has for games grew too big for gamers to ignore.

As a Linux user I actually agree with a lot of your points here, and I don't pretend Linux is the silver bullet that we want it to be yet, I just got really tired of all the ads, broken code, and straight up data theft

The Microsoft ceo told the programmers to prioritize security. Then they bricked vpn’s 😂

Thats what annoys me, Not the ads, The control over MY PC. I do not need someone telling me what I can install on it.

still using windows 10 there is no reason to switch to w11

Ahh Microsoft, they've reinvented the wheel so many times now it's a square! Cheers 🍻

Hostility toward customer needs has been accelerating in all areas of commerce in the last several years. It will cost them dearly.

Windows 11 taskbar is a disgrace to humanity.

I remember when everyone was laughing at Apple for lack of customization.

I am in tech, working with Windows every single day. I have been growing increasingly disenchanted and frustrated with Microsoft and their non stop manipulation of Windows and their users. Microsoft has become increasingly intrusive and aggressive in their efforts to collect your data.

deal breaker for me, is not being able to move the task bar on to either left or right or top of the screen. It is LOCKED to the bottom of the screen. Like WHY?!

The drag & drop into the path bar was also something I used all the time! I'm so glad someone mentioned it, it was so weird when I tried to do it now on Windows 11 and it didn't work, then I looked it up and learned they removed it just because they felt like it (I think their actual reasoning was literally: "not that many people use it, let's just remove it"). The disrespect toward their own users is unreal.

You've listed most of the reasons why most of my machines are still running W10, even got one on W7.

The one that gets me is that Microsoft, with the Windows 11 24H2 update, will be automatically applying Bitlocker encryption for all volumes on your device. Happens during the Windows install process but supposedly when you update an existing 23H2 system to 24H2. I DO NOT want my devices to have Bitlocker encryption on them, I have no need for that to occur and really, really hate that MS is making that an automatic/mandatory thing.

Your "bad manager" analogy is excellent. I have been using Ubuntu for my writing laptop for years because when I am trying to work on Windows (even Windows 10, but even more so on 11) it felt like trying to concentrate in a daycare center.

I got a fairly new gaming laptop about 6 months ago that was pre-loaded with Windows 11. My old laptop was a Windows 10 model that I didn't have a ton of issues with. Within about 3 weeks of me having the Windows 11 one, I had to look up how to downgrade to from Win 11 to Win 10 and never looked back. The reason? RAM Utilization. For some reason, Windows 11 would hog about 45% of the memory, from a cold boot. That's with nothing else running. It would go up to about 70-80% the longer I would let it run. The laptop had no innate Malware or Spyware, or pre-installed garbage. I even did a fresh install of Windows 11, and it still had this problem. Went back to Windows 10, and no problems at all.

Main reason I'm still using Windows is the ease of installing and running games, especially games that don't have a Linux variant.

This is the reason Apple does not put MacOS on the iPad and people don't understand why. Having different interfaces for different devices is good.

People often buy big, expensive high-resolution monitors *because they want more usable screen space*. Not usually due to having the visual cognition of a two-year-old. Then we have MS and the majority of current website creators tabletifying everything, scrolling down umpteen times to see content which should fit on an old 640x480 VGA display. … It's somewhat akin to fitting a sports car with the same engine as a 49cc scooter. Even with "printer-friendly" stuff e.g. statements, now it's triple line spacing with tiny fonts and acres of white-space. Requires FOUR sheets of paper? It could easily fit on ONE.

Bro, I switched to Linux. All games working easily and everything is so fucking fast no matter whats installed. Never going back

Windows 8 looked like one of those Kiosks in stores ore restaurants.

As an IT admin who manages a Windows environment for around 250 end users I can honestly say: Windows 11 CONSTANTLY gets in the way of me doing actual work. Edge takes over PAID FOR copies of Adobe reader pro CONSTANTLY. It always tries to take away prefered browsers and put Edge in their place. It installs 3 different versions of Teams (with out my permission) even though we need Teams (work or school) to do parts of our job. When MS office fails, it takes down the entire OS with it causing me to have to re-image the PC which is hours of work for me, and hours of lost work for the end user. Win 7 let us choose what updates we needed, Win 11 forces them on us no matter what. When I set up a new Win 11 install for a new employee, I have to: Uninstall about 10-12 apps that are not needed in a business world Disable UEFI Encapsule Updates from the BIOS Jump through hoops to get local user accounts to work deny MS account control about a half dozen times so MS doesn't take full control of the PC be completely mercilessly attacked by unwanted windows updates.

Customization is one of the most important things to me. Even explorerpatcher and openshell aren't enough. Windows should just have more customization options available for power users, i dont know why they don't..

How about that stupid right click menu, where the most used cmd's are under "more options" Pisses me off 10 times a day.

Sitting on windows 10 until defeated or moving to Linux. There is no third option, macOS is garbage too

I miss Windows XP.

I think one of the reasons Microsoft doesn't seem to care about cheap Windows keys is because there's no profit in them. Data mining is where they clean up, so I wouldn't be surprised if permanent ads on the desktop, or being forced to have a Microsoft account, become a reality.

Desktop OSes are trying to figure out where they fit in and who their target market it as the landscape has changed. People who are not creating content, which is the majority, are rapidly moving to mostly using their phone or tablet when not at work. I've seen this with those in my own family who are not power users or PC gamers, they spend way more time on small screens devices than desktops. This is huge shift over the last ten years. Windows should be focusing more on the power users, business users, and PC gamers. Windows home as it stands is becoming irrelevant.

Windows XP SP3 (even "ZverDVD" repack) always gonna have special place in my heart. Ah, and Windows 7 too.

Your Pepsi comparison illustrates a good point. They really should start releasing different versions of Windows. You could have a normie version of Windows which comes preinstalled and has all this fluff. But then they could have versions designed specifically for gaming or power users, or hell even a version specifically for VMs.

I knew it had gone off the rails when I went from Windows 7 to Windows 10 and when I inserted a USB drive it told me to "tap" to select it, on a desktop PC.

You mentioning the GUI dates back to Windows NT made me reminiscent of my MCSE on NT 4.0 days back in 1996. Yes, I used NT 3.51 BEFORE Win95 came out. It needed a boatload of RAM when there was collusion going on between manufacturers and RAM cost about 50$ PER MEGABYTES back then.

in the Greek alphabet (Alpha Beta), Cairo is XP (Chi Rho). Cairo shell is so called because 'Windows XP' was always called Windows Cairo.

NT is the kernel, DWM is the window manager and it only exists since Windows Vista. Windows shell is the user interface, and it exists since Windows 95

I personally wish Microsoft could find a way to provide themes to make newer versions of Windows look and feel like previous versions, kind of like how 7 has the aero theme and the classic gray theme.

I have completely debloated Windows 11 and removed my sign in details when logging in. Will these changes still effect me? Will I still need to switch to Linux Mint?

I don't use Linux for one reason: games. Not because the games can not be run on Linux, but because the configurations to make them run is a pita. I recently tested a couple of Linux variants and installed/configured Baldur's Gate 3. The game ran fine. But I don't want to be tasked with the hours of workarounds to make them run.

Hear hear on the audio for Linux stuff. It's holding me back as well. BUT, the past year, more and more plugin devs have started bringing their plugs to Linux, which is absolutely amazing. When it comes to DAWs there's now Reaper, Bitwig and Studio One, all with official Linux versions. So things are actually happening, and they're moving in the right direction faster than ever before. And yes, Apple had it right with the no touch screen on the laptops, because touch brings schizophrenia regarding the UI interactions and the result will be a shitty UI with worst of both worlds.

Start going to Linux? I'm actively pushing people to Linux! No more Windows in my house, period!

Thanks for the video. I'm also hostage to some Windows programs, so what I started doing is to run everything I can on an Ubuntu VM using VirtualBox, and I simply leave in Windows whatever cannot run under Ubuntu (mainly Office365 and games). With today's CPUs and cheap memory I have ample resources to run a super beefy VM. Lately, I have a tendency to set the VM in full screen and I forget that W11 is running in the background

This channel is awesome! But there are soooooo many guides and tips, which one is good starting point for a fresh Windows install? No need for hardcore debloating, just a bit and do system backups in case my system gets corrupted like last time...

Windows NT is the kernel. The Desktop Enviroment is dwm.exe and explorer.exe

Not so long ago I upgraded my desktop computer from Debain Linux 11 to 12. I didn't have to learn a whole new OS because the look and feel of it did not change. Furthermore, I didn't have to reconfigure ANYTHING because, if you have a separate /home directory everything just stays the same except now you have a more secure, up to date system. I never did understand why Microsoft feels the need to partially or totally wipe the slate with every new release. Eveyone liked 10's user interface apparently so why go effing around with it?

I'm on Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC because it's a Windows 10 build with support till 2032, and after that is over I might go over to some LTSC version of Windows 11 that supports explorer patcher, but also has security updates.

I use FL Studio on my Mint install and it runs fine with Wine.. unless it's a specific VST you are having issues with?

The biggest loss in Windows 11 is the custom toolbar option on the taskbar. In Windows 10 (and earlier), I use it for my program access about 98% of the time. Very seldom do I use the Start menu.

Windows 8.1 with openshell is basically a better and more stable Windows 7, legit my third favorite Windows version after XP and 7

If you manually force install a driver the window that comes up is so old it asks you if you want to look on the A drive for the file not even the C drive first

When I bought my 13900k build last year, it didn't take my previous Windows 10 installation, so since I had to start from scratch I decided to start with Windows 11, the first red flag that I faced was that I couldn't proceed with the installation because it needed to connect to the internet, and for some reason it was not finding the drivers needed to use either LAN or WLAN on my new Z790 motherboard, so I had to work around it by using the uGreen USB to LAN adapter I had bought to use on my Nintendo Switch for Online play, and then I was able to proceed with the Windows 11 install as the drivers for that other device were recognized, and then I pushed myself to use Windows 11 for about a month, and as I installed more software/drivers I noticed stability issues, and then when I actually tried doing my usual stuff such as using emulators or virtual machines I also encountered issues with those activities, but the thing that broke the camel's back for me was that File Explorer started crashing randomly, and I was also noticing slow response from the interface where when I tried right clicking stuff and etc, it would take some time to populate the context menu, and that's when I said screw it and did a fresh install for Windows 10, and unlike Windows 11 that had issues with the drivers for the Z790, I had a smooth installation from start to finish and now its basically 1 year later, and I can't report any issues on my Win 10 22H2 installation except for the one time where the KB5034843 update brought some strange slowdowns, but after uninstalling that I was able to resolve the slowdown issues with it, and I can't really complain as I've been able to do everything that I want now, and if I do want to have the Windows 11 experience, then I just boot up VMWare Workstation and run an install I have for Windows 11 on there.

Using Win8.1 with Shell menu app for the last 5 years faster than Win10 and Win11 with crappy UI and Apple approach "do it our way not your way".

Quickly, announce Windows 12!

Had an ex microsoft emplyee help build a PC last year and he was adamarnt about keeping windows 10. He literally called 11 'windows 8' all over again.

❤❤ the manager analogy. Second video of yours I've seen and liked...subscribed!

There is a reason why I downgraded to Windows 10

Windows 11 made me go to Linux and I love it on Linux Mint. Microsoft has pushed my patience over the edge and now that Linux has become viable for gaming thanks to Valve, it was time for me to finally try it.

I will say this, an unactivated Windows install that I've had for a while when The OEM key that I had didn't work, got to say it's probably the smoothest windows experience I've had so far with 10. I mean I did the whole thing with the region global, and jumping out of the startup, alt f3, then created the user account with group manager... And that significantly helped my initial outing... But with the exception of the watermark that shows up, I don't think I've ever had an issue like I used to have with an activated account.

I have switched to MacOS recently, and now that I am used to it, going back to Windows almost feels like I'm fighting the OS sometimes.

With each new version of Windows, I always hack the GUI and functionality to work/look like Windows 7/Vista. That is what I feel comfortable with, that is my "Windows zen."

Win 2K was my goto for YEARS.

I've been mad busy with life related happenings and youtube felt like I shouldn't see this video in my sub list or homepage. Had to come to the channel manually. Glad I did ! Did not expect that comment to lead anywhere. Hope you enjoyed making this video. It looks like the community enjoyed it, happy to see that. I really did a double take when I read RANT:30 in the title :) . As far as customizing windows, what options do we have available at the moment? I got a win11 laptop that I haven't been using because I want to set it up "once" then take an image of that setup and keep it as my own version of a recovery disc. At the moment it is almost how I want it, there are a few things keeping me from using it more. Mostly an attempt to avoid filling it with crap and having to reinstall windows to fix deep bugs that would appear, I keep going back to my win10 pc that really needs a fresh install...and a break. Found one program that was supposed to do it but wasn't doing what it said on the tin, instead it was more, take an image now and pay for a subscription to use it down the line... That's a no from me. is there a method (you recommend) to take a full image of a current install, export that to a usb and have it as a clean backup of where you have the OS setup how you (the end user) like it? Would it need to be a bootable or non-bootable usb? I'd be more willing to take the plunge on installing some customization if I knew I could get back to where I started without hassle. Restore points are not exactly the right thing. I think there is a method sys-admins use when installing win on work machines for employees dunno if that would be the solution or not. Not sure if it would make a decent video idea or not, But it is a tutorial worth making I think. How to customize windows and make your own recovery iso.

Since I bought an ultra-wide screen I want to use it. Why can't I drag the taskbar to the vertical edge? Or have it live on my 2nd monitor?

Imagine buying mid en gaming laptop that released in 2023 and came with Windows 11, and suffer from slow slughish choppy animation of the Windows 11 UI/UX itself is ridiculously unacceptable... And then when i try to downgrade to windows 10, guess what, i regret using windows 11

I’m honestly considering switching to another OS. From their inability to regain the search functionality of win8 to removing quality of life features and so much more it’s at a point that I literally have a thread on my Discord solely for Windows issues.

The task bar always pops up whenever it can when some app has an alert/highlight set. When all windows with the amber highlight have been clicked, the task bar calms down again and does finally auto hide properly.

For me it's a hardware issue, I have yet to find a distro that provides a driver for striped raid for the boot disk. NVME X 4 in raid 0 is so get it done I have a hard time on all my other PC's and it's not like they are slouches either...

At this point I’ve made a game out of picking through new W11 updates to see what’s been changed. These days I only boot my W11 drive to let the girlfriend play her games or to access GamePass, so months pass between boots. Without fail, something has always changed for the worse in those months. This is textbook enshittification in my eyes. They’re going to push ads, web apps, AI, and bloat while removing stuff we actually like. Can’t wait to see subscription model for Windows happen, that’ll be the day I stop dual booting entirely.

I hope to see your video on this abomination of a OS soon.

Can any of the Win 10 Pro keys be used to upgrade from Win 10 home to Win 10 Pro?

“Windows 11 is trash! Don’t forget to activate! Gotta have Pro Trash!”😂

Who still remembers... XP Antispy (website still exists btw., frozen in time since 2015). This battle has been ongoing since the literal dawn of the century...

In IT for 25 years. Agree 100% on all your points. I still run W10 on all my personnel systems and refuse to go to W11 (not ever) unless they undo the direction they are heading. Fun Fact: 70% percent of the World is still running W10 not W11, in fact there are more W10 users this year than there were last year which means PEOPLE don't like W11. MS ... Get a clue

How do I prevent W10 from accidentally updating to 11? It keeps offering the upgrade all the time, I'm afraid a wrong move, a wrong click results in an unwanted switch...

I've heard VMs on Linux can be made run Windows with minimal performance impact. I have not dabbled with it yet, I am still getting the hang of Linux itself. Instead, I am dual-booting for the select few programs, that refuse to add support for Linux. Anyone know a good alternative to Solidworks for Linux? I tried Fusion 360, but ran terribly.

As someone who only reluctantly updated from Windows 2000 to XP and from XP to Windows 7 only after certain games and programs started demanding kernel functions not present on previous OSses I literally don't understand why people have "upgraded" to Windows 8, 10 or 11 from Windows 7? Is it the MS's "you absolutely cannot use OS that doesn't get security updates anymore" scare tactics? The need to have the newest and "greatest" version of Windows? Maybe I'm missing something here but I'm still using Windows 7 and ONLY at start of this year I have had some minor problems with "outdated" internet browsers started having problems with certain sites and that was easily fixed by changing browsers. Then again nowadays I have zero interest in new games, especially the AAA ones, so I don't know if latest games require newer versions of Windows? PS. If there was a 64-bit version of Windows 2000 and hardware supporting it that would be my dream OS, nothing has come anywhere near Windows 2000 as far as user interface is concerned. Anyway when Windows 7 finally becomes unusable for me I'm switching to Linux as then I'm done with Windows and it only getting worse for the last 20 years.

Does the classic context menu Registry hack still work in 24H2? That will be a dealbreaker for me if it doesn't.

Can I ask why you need to go into the Network window like that? You can see available networks from the original panel

Exactly what you said in you this video is how I feel about it. Look, I really want Windows to be good like Windows 7 or 10, but it just tries to get in your way all the time now. The fact that they remove the old code means they don't let the user use their software , no. They tell the user how to use the software. Like you, I have a few Windows programs I need. Other than these few programs I use Linux now. I'm done. I tried to hang around but enough is enough. Looking out for the video where you show the software you can't go without 💪🏻

So, you recommend keep windows 10? For now i will because my pc can´t handle 11.

I’m in basically the same situation as you. I have Linux on several machines but for my main I’m stuck with Windows 10 as primary because of FL using VST’s, Midi, Adobe CC, and a couple other programs. I remember playing around with seamless RDP MS RemoteApp into Linux there was a project that allowed opening of files and worked very well for office. As Windows 10 end of Support approaches I will be playing with this again and hopefully getting FL to work. I plan on having a VM or other server running the version of Windows for the specific programs. I’m hoping it can be window server otherwise I plan on locking down, securing, and stripping 10 as much as possible to be in a state where it can defer updates as I’ve done for clients that need to use legacy versions of Windows for old vital business software / machinery. That’s the plan at least, but a new GUI for windows would be an interesting option. Edit: needed to mention I don’t use windows 11, I never liked it. Stuck with 10 and have no intention to use 11 as daily.

Great tip for having Target folders as Tabs for organizing. I was just going through old boxes of stuff and found a set of Windows NT 3.51 beta on 5.25" floppies. I saved them - somewhere.

Thanks for this! Do you know if there is a way in Windows 11 to set all explorer folders to have only certain columns (date modified, size)? I tried modifying a high level folder, like "C" or "D," and then "Apply" but it did not work. Am I missing something simple?

Would you ever instal linux on your minisforum tablet? I was thinking of getting one and installing Debian or Manjaro on it but I don't know how compatible it would be.

Even 23h2 was a nightmare to customize. I’ve perfected it but I’m not even touching 24h2, it’s gonna be next to impossible

One of the main reasons I never made the jump to Linux is music software is not made for Linux, if they had official Linux versions I would be more incline to make a switch. I don't want to buy an official product then have to figure out "Wines?" to be able to run my software on Linux

I can understand that many professional content creators cannot fully move over to Linux, but for the majority of people. everything that most people do can easily be done with a Linux distribution.

Now that you mention it (2:12), I don't think I've ever contacted any company about software/OS problems.

Win11 is worse than Vista

Ads are making everything worse: RU-vid, Facebook, Cable TV, and now Windows OS. Corporations sell something that works well then let ads creep in little by little. Eventually they are obtrusive. Notice the “playing through” ads for golf tournament coverage? What’s next? Streaming services and maybe even some Linux distros.

1. For many years since 16:9 and 16:10 LCD screens became common I started to move taskbar to the left side of the screen. When Windows 11 disabled that option I told to myself that I won't be using unofficial hacks as this is something that I expect from OS. Now that they fight with them I'm even more upset with it. I tested W11 for few days and then I went back to W10 as I didn't saw any advantage in new version. I will rather move to Linux full time than being forced to use taskbar at the bottom. 2. Microsoft don't listen and Microsoft don't care. Windows is not important to them as they get money from different products like Azure, XBox, CoPilot and so on. Tiny little changes take years because there's almost nobody working on it. And people who work there change every few years with new trendy unfinished ideas they bring. Look - only cool feature of Windows 11 was Android Subsystem and now it's gone.

I wonder if the upcoming Win11 LTSC version will be alright. I am currently running Win10 LTSC and it's fine. less bloat in LTSC versions.

Good video and needed. I'm still on Win10 but had to use 11 at work in IT. 11 works with tweaks in Settings and Powertoys. A corporate image also has the ads and shit apps removed. Still a mess compared to 10...

People who say "it will never get better" as they suck up everything MS does to them will make that a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Does ODBC still have the old Win 3.1 ui look and feel?

As a Linux user, I agree with your points. It's going to be a slow drip, drip process. Average users are becoming more tech savvy. Hopefully, the big software vendors will jump onboard. Eventually. The one question I have for Microsoft, is why? Seriously.

They also develop windows 11 as simultaneously working with Surface tablets. Thats apparently why stuff like taskbar management is missing. Idk why they can’t have two builds but I assume that’s them being to cheap to qa two systems.

As a Windows 11 user (which has to sadly use it sometimes) and been absolutely not liking the direction of Windows since 2014, I can’t tell how great 11 is… if you disable everything that was made with 10 and 11. I disabled anything modern in explorer (syslistview32 from XP, 7’s command bar, old context menu, old details pane, old 10 taskbar), substituted the taskbar with the MacOS dock (I just prefer how it looks and works), removed Widgets entirely, removed the Reccomended section entirely from the start menu, removed the new flyouts (so it uses either the Dock ones, or the 7/10 ones), removed many of the inbox apps (Edge -> Firefox, Outlook -> Thunderbird, Notepad -> Notepads, Photos -> Visum, Calculator -> Win7 Calculator), disabled web search, substituted aero.msstyles with Rectify11 (so I have at least a much more consistent dark mode UI for about two years, whereas any native copy of 11 doesn’t. Plus with AccentColorizer, MicaForEveryone, new cursors, new icons, fixed control panel and AcrylicMenus it improves the look so much better). And, after all of this, it’s actually nice to use my laptop, but I shouldn’t disable everything new and many other stuff too to just get an OS that doesn’t get in my way, and that it looks decently modern. What’s fun though is that, I have an old Atom netbook with Vista on it, and obviously it nags you a lot less than 11 (the most Windows tells you is like “Review solutions to your problems”), and actually, certain things work better in Vista than in 11, namely for example the search. In Vista, the search in the start menu not only is surprisingly fast for a 2007 HDD, an Atom processor and 1GB of RAM, but it can search keywords inside office documents, onenote, mail, calendar, contacts, etc, all directly from the start menu. I’ve never ever seen modern search do this.

MS is so weird about the OS where they keep removing any user control people have. Then just doing things to make the general experience worse. I'm glad I switched to Linux.