This is partly to do with the start menu trying to act like a search engine. Its frustrating when you are looking for a document or application and it searches the web.
ive had to learn never to use the ‘more info’ or ‘search’ options at all, as it defaults to a web search now instead of what im used to, a hdd search for my file or internal windows help documentation. fuggen ! something something you are the product smh my head
This is partly to do with the start menu trying to act like a search engine. Its frustrating when you are looking for a document or application and it searches the web.
Microsoft why can we not turn this off!
It’s simple, really.
If the first results are a web search, you wouldn’t notice how terrible the local search indexing is.
ive had to learn never to use the ‘more info’ or ‘search’ options at all, as it defaults to a web search now instead of what im used to, a hdd search for my file or internal windows help documentation. fuggen
! something something you are the product smh my head
I remember searching “control panel” and it brings up a brazilian cafe
You can. I’ve had it off for years. It just needs a registry update, and persists across updates.
There’s a few ways to turn it off, but they require registry editing or using the Group Policy editor if you have a Pro license
https://www.ghacks.net/2021/11/26/how-to-turn-off-search-the-web-results-in-windows-11/
I have it turned off. But maybe that option is not available outside of EU? I don’t know.
I’m using keypirinha and haven’t opened the startmenu for years
I mean… KDE can do it just fine.
Some suggestions:
Winaero Tweaker
winutil
BetterOS
NTLite
Really, its Linux that makes you spend all your time debugging issues and fixing things.