Win8 Made Easy: Using Win8 global search quickly and easily

Author: Mayon

Win8 is a major improvement so that the original search tools become more efficient and powerful, this is the new global search The charm, through the global search we can search for any file on the computer, as well as applications and settings. In this issue of "Win8 One Pass" we will talk about Win8's global search.

Perhaps the user who just started using Win8 will not find the search portal at the moment, because the search button in the "Start Menu"> also disappears with the “Start Menu” Now we have to search, we need to slide the mouse to the lower right corner of the screen and then lift it up, then find the search button on the Charm Bar.

The search key is located in Charm Bar

or you can find the search using the combination of “Windows+X”, which can be found on the function menu that opens. Although it is opened in the desktop state, it will still jump to the Metro state for search operations.

Searching in the function menu

Now let's introduce the global search of Win8. The so-called global can search all the contents of the computer, which does not only contain the original file and The program can also search for settings and other content.

When you type in the search box, we will find that you can switch between the "application”,“set>set> and “file” tags to switch to the specified label. Can search within the corresponding range.

Search is divided into files, settings, and applications.

The most important thing about global search is that you can search for internal content in the app. This is rather vague, let's An example. For example, if we want to search for “QQ”, after typing “QQ” in the input box, we can also display the number of files in the “Applications”, “Settings” & “Settings” and “Files”. Click the app icon below. Click “App Store” to search for the keyword QQ application in the app store, click “news” to search for news related to QQ.

Searching for QQ in the app store

If we don't want to be able to search across all apps, we can turn it off. Go to “Change PC Settings" and switch to the “Search” tab and close those apps that you don't want to appear in the search list.

You can close the list of searched apps

In fact, Win8's global search will become even more powerful in the upcoming version of Win8.1, because in addition to searching for local content on the computer, new Global search can also directly search for content on the Internet. The above is the full content of this issue of "Win8 One Pass", I hope everyone has a new understanding of Win8's global search.