Start 8 Search Not as Good as Default Win8 Search

Certain applications I use regularly (not daily, so I don't bother pinning them to the taskbar) seem to require more letters than necessary to be found in the Start8 search box.

For it to find Photoshop I need to type "phot" before it will come up, but if I use the default Windows 8 search I just need to type the letter "P" and it pops up right away. Similarly if I want to search for Free Download Manager I need to type "free do" before it comes up in Start8, and I only need to type "fr" in the Windows 8 search.

Is there an option that will make Start8 share the search capabilities of Windows 8?

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Start8 uses the same indexer as Windows 7 used.

Is this not just a case of more results being visible in the Windows 8 start screen? If you type P I would expect many matches and you are only going to see about 5 of them based on the default menu height.

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My main beef is that the Windows 8 indexer is slow.

For example, I save a file to disk. I then open up Start8, type in the name, it doesn't find it. That's annoying.

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Here is the Start8 search for "p" expanded to 20 icons (even setting it to 30 wouldn't show photoshop in the initial results)

http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2013/282/9/b/start8_search_by_realghostvids-d6pw08g.jpg

And here is the same search in the Windows 8 start screen

http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2013/282/5/c/win8_search_by_realghostvids-d6pw085.jpg

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My main beef is that the Windows 8 indexer is slow.

For example, I save a file to disk. I then open up Start8, type in the name, it doesn't find it. That's annoying.

I haven't found this to be the case.

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