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RE[7]: Start Button Useless??
by WereCatf on Thu 27th Jun 2013 01:08 UTC in reply to "RE[6]: Start Button Useless??"
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Efficiency depends on the person using it.


Some things yes, because there are no menu entries for everything and for e.g. the command-line hitting Win+R and typing "cmd" is a much faster way of launching it than doing a search.

Do you launch Explorer and then use the search box?

If I have to locate a specific file under some specific file-hierarchy, yes.



Do you open Control Panel and browse to an applet?

Yes. Once you've learned where the applets are it's faster to just click your way there than doing a search.


Ah, here's the multi-million dollar question: I have plenty of other files than just office documents and not all files I have contain any meaningful metadata! If you only handle office documents then good for you, the rest of us have lots of other kinds of files to handle and searching for them is simply no workable replacement for a good hierarchy.


Drop down from your high horse and break your neck. There is no "understanding," there are differing tastes and needs.

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