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When i type the first character in the control panel's search barit does not show the result of the programs that started with that character unless i press enter which is really annoying.In past i was typing one letter and windows was giving results without me pressing enter.Please help me
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Hi Thanasis,
I am Sumit, an Independent Advisor and a 2-Year Windows Insider MVP here to help.
Control Panel is not being actively developed or maintained. Recent improvements to search might have affected this as well.
The settings app has almost all settings available as of now of control panel. So I recommend using it instead.
Hi, I'm Greg, an installation specialist, 10 year Windows MVP, and Volunteer Guardian Moderator here to help you.
The new Settings app gradually replacing the Control Panel has a similar Search function that you can try. It seems to be getting better with each new Version.
If you want to express your opinion on this to Microsoft use the Feedback Hub app in Start Menu where developers are tasked to process consumer feedback. They will not even see it here. This is a tech forums staffed mostly by volunteers trying to help others with your problems.
If you want to post back a Share link from your Feedback here others who see this thread can vote it up and add to it.
Thank you for your reply.Well control panel is more user friendly and now its unusable thanks to recent windows updates.
Thank you for your reply,but using settings its just another way of searching.
Have you thought of using Settings instead?
