How do you find stuff on windows 8?

Chimp Paradox · 26 Sep 2014 at 18:47

I thought you just had to go to the windows icon and search google style, but annoyingly this keeps coming up with search results online instead. For example I cannot get to disk management this way, nor can I find "insurgent" a game which I installed and successfully played until I deleted the desk top short cut. I cannot even find the game by searching in the folders in explorer! Any ideas?

chroniclard · 26 Sep 2014 at 18:53

I press the start button on keyboard(or click the button) and start typing and it all appears.

So start, type disk, first option is create and format hard disk partitions. Same with any games I have installed.

As below.

Or try windows key + X(or right click windows icon in 8.1) and click disk management

nutcase · 26 Sep 2014 at 19:21

Windows key + Q then start typing.

zola25 · 28 Sep 2014 at 10:01

I wasn't aware of Windows + Q, seems the same as Windows + S which is a little weird.

nutcase · 28 Sep 2014 at 11:02

I wasn't aware of Windows+S :confused:

Pho · 28 Sep 2014 at 11:26

I wasn't aware of either S or Q

. Much nicer than the fullscreen start menu for opening things quickly, cheers

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I get search results back when I've misspelt what I'm looking for. Are you on 8 or 8.1?

What happens if you type in diskmgmnt.msc in the search bar? That's disk management's real name and should work.

ron3003 · 28 Sep 2014 at 13:04

Pretty sure the game you're looking for is actually called Insurgency.

zola25 · 28 Sep 2014 at 14:50

I'm on 8.1 and "disk man" or "format" works for me.

Elevon · 28 Sep 2014 at 15:33

Chimp Paradox said:
I thought you just had to go to the windows icon and search google style, but annoyingly this keeps coming up with search results online instead. For example I cannot get to disk management this way, nor can I find "insurgent" a game which I installed and successfully played until I deleted the desk top short cut. I cannot even find the game by searching in the folders in explorer! Any ideas?

What's wrong with right clicking bottom left corner(Win+X menu) which brings up this

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has disk management and search on there,works both on Metro Start and old desktop.

Rroff · 28 Sep 2014 at 15:38

Windows key + R and enter: %programdata%\microsoft\windows\start menu\programs or %appdata%\microsoft\windows\start menu\programs

No doubt it has installed an entry in there somewhere, at some point I might do a little example of how to get the start menu back without using 3rd party applications as apparently it was too hard for MS despite all the components still being there.

zola25 · 28 Sep 2014 at 19:20

Elevon said:
What's wrong with right clicking bottom left corner(Win+X menu) which brings up this

Very useful that menu, nothing wrong with it at all