Solved file explorer: typing now searchs instead of going to file

[webtax]

when on file explorer, you could go to a file in the current folder by pressing its first character, for example if i pressed "r" it selected the readme.txt file

this behaviour has changed now on my windows 8.1 , it starts using the search function

is there a way to go back to the previous behaviour? i'm not sure if this happened because of an update, or after i used my account on a windows 10 machine

 

[broe23]

See the Search hilighted in the Ribbon. Microsoft is updating the search function on 8, because not all devices can run 10.

 

[webtax]

no options there, the search tab appears after pressing the character, but there are not options there except for what to search

 

[broe23]

I am going to have to look at my wife's laptop, since she is still using 8.1. That is odd.

The only real info I can find is about further embedding Bing into Search to make it "Smarter".

Under Search, change it from "All Folders" to "Current Folder".

 

[webtax]

found the setting

solved, thanks!