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I was using Windows 8.1 and recently upgraded to 10. But I find its Cortana is next to useless. Windows 8.1 would search for files in network shares, and Cortana refuses to. Even if the shares are indexed -- even if the folder is your primary documents folder (one of the few good things Windows 10 will let you do). Cortana won't search it. Windows Explorer search will still search properly, but Cortana won't. So I was hoping the developers would add network share searching to Classic Shell.

Classic Start Menu cannot search network shares but using an app like Winaero Librarian, you can include a network share or mapped drive letter inside a Library and then use the "Search" shortcut inside Start -> All Programs to find content from that location, although it isn't really indexed.

See this article first: http://winaero.com/blog/how-to-include- ... libraries/ (How to include UNC network folder paths and shares in Libraries). It applies to Windows 10 too. Once your network folder is included in any Library, open the shortcut called "Search" inside All Programs. That is the old Windows 8.1 search and it is present in Windows 10 too. It is capable of searching network shares.

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Links to some general topics:

● Compare Start Menus

● Read the Search box usage guide.

I am a Windows enthusiast and helped a little with Classic Shell's testing and usability/UX feedback.