Comment on Windows: we noticed that you kept the useless search bar disabled since 2015, so we sent an update that re-enabled it without your permission

pineapplelover@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• clanginator@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Press start key, type. Faster than clicking on a search box.

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  • pineapplelover@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah that’s what I do. Wait what are you guys talking about? Is the search box a different thing? I can disable that and still use the searching feature?

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• ubermeisters@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  imagine enabling windows search

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  • Kedly@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Back when it did its job of SEARCHING YOUR COMPUTER, IF I WANT AN INTERNET SEARCH ILL USE THE FUCKING INTERNET, ahem, it was actually a useful feature

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    • clanginator@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You can remove the Internet search and make it do normal search pretty easily

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      • Kedly@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I personally had to go into system files and block it there. I wouldn’t call that easy for the average user

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• Moonrise2473@feddit.it ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Find programs to download using bing?

  Everything I type on the search bar on Windows 10 gives priority on bing and never local, even if I type regedit.exe

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  • pineapplelover@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I deleted bing using osm& and it removed functionality of searching for files. It’s unfortunate that they implemented it this way. I’m going to see if I can block requests in firewall.

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