Win 10 - where is notepad and Run gone?

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In win 7 i would just go to Start-Run type "notepad" in and away i go. There doesnt seem to be a Run option on the start bar anymore and notepad doesnt appear in any menu's. The only way i can see to do it is to add a blank text doc to the desktop and just click on that when i need notepad. Can i get the Run option back on the menu anyhow?
 
Windows key +R or right click start button for extra menu
 
cool thanks, didnt scroll down enough to see the Windows Accessories folder and didnt know about the right click menu :)
 
AshleyC said:
In win 7 i would just go to Start-Run type "notepad"
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Harriers9 said:
I found the notepad in accessories I dragged the app onto the start panel so it's easy to find
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I think you both should get acquainted with the search facility. It has been excellent since Windows 7 and it is so useful.
 
redsnappa said:
I think you both should get acquainted with the search facility. It has been excellent since Windows 7 and it is so useful.
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IanAshworth said:
If you click on the start button, then start typing, it will bring up a list of options. It's like run without the text box
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Exactly that, to me it is such pointless waste of memory in our brains to remember where each application is when you can just press the windows button and start typing. Same on OS X for many many years where launching apps via Spotlight is the fastest and Ubuntu has taken that on board as well....As do mobile phones, and people...I always just ask my wife where something is :)
 
i took the search bar off the button strip as i didnt want it there. The start button and typing thing is cool though.
 
Just how counter-intuitive is it to 'type' in a non-existent dialogue box? Crazy - took me ages 'learn' this :runaway:
 
IanAshworth said:
If you turn cortana off you get the option to replace the cortana search box (on the taskbar) with a magnifying glass symbol. Clicking that symbol opens the dialogue box into which you can start typing. That's how I have it set up - like this http://core0.staticworld.net/images/article/2014/10/windows10_taskbar3-100508996-large.idge.jpg
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I think I'm going back to Windoze 8... and it carried on. I just don't like how you're expected to know/find out. Why change things too much?

It runs counter to normal communicative dialogue. A bit like a kid just blurting out without having established that the other party is ready to listen! Is this my first foray into the world of the miserable old git?
 
Unfortunately I think so. As I said before, OS X has had that for years, Ubuntu, or should I say gnome Windows manager also for several iterations. Mobile phones do exactly the same thing.

I much prefer an assistant to call upon things opposed to not only having to remember what it is called but also where it is.

The right tools at the right time makes perfect sense.

Ps. Windows 8 did this as well.
 
I was wrong, the search facility has been included in Windows since Vista so people have had 10 years to get used to using the search facility, that is long enough surely?
 
redsnappa said:
I was wrong, the search facility has been included in Windows since Vista so people have had 10 years to get used to using the search facility, that is long enough surely?
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Getting used to and knowing it's there are two different things surely?
 
redsnappa said:
I was wrong, the search facility has been included in Windows since Vista so people have had 10 years to get used to using the search facility, that is long enough surely?
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To be fair it was pretty s*** at it before Windows 8. Windows 8 was the first usable implementation in my opinion.
 
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