It works inconsistently for me to the point that I just can't rely on it.
I can give a very recent example, my W11 has also be freshly installed and there's not much stuff installed yet.
I have portable version of HWinfo located in My Documents folder.
If I start typing "hwi" into search it will sometimes find it, sometimes it will find it only if I type "hw" but not find it if I type "hwi" so if I type fast I must then delete character... And sometimes it needs me to type whole name of the application and sometimes it won't find anything no matter what I type.
Then there is Riva Tuner Statistics Server which is an installed application located on C: in Program Files folder. It launches with RTSS.exe... It may as well not exist for Windows search because no matter what I type it can't ever find it.
For me the trick was to disable web search. I don't remember how I did it but you can Google it. Then it was really nice and fast, as it should've always been
It works inconsistently for me to the point that I just can't rely on it.
I can give a very recent example, my W11 has also be freshly installed and there's not much stuff installed yet.
I have portable version of HWinfo located in My Documents folder.
If I start typing "hwi" into search it will sometimes find it, sometimes it will find it only if I type "hw" but not find it if I type "hwi" so if I type fast I must then delete character... And sometimes it needs me to type whole name of the application and sometimes it won't find anything no matter what I type.
Then there is Riva Tuner Statistics Server which is an installed application located on C: in Program Files folder. It launches with RTSS.exe... It may as well not exist for Windows search because no matter what I type it can't ever find it.
For me the trick was to disable web search. I don't remember how I did it but you can Google it. Then it was really nice and fast, as it should've always been