Looking back, I understood with Windows XP that I wasn't in the target group. Win 95/98 had a simple but functional file search. Being naive, I was expecting some power user features in the future, like regex search.

Win XP replaced the classic file search with one that had an animated dog in it.

The dog search was completely, utterly useless. You would not find anything with it. It was so bad I still vividly remember my bafflement about it.