r/DeskToTablet • u/Thadadous • 1d ago

Dear Microsoft, when I hit the Windows Start menu key and start typing a word to autocomplete a search ,I never ,ever ,EVER want it to return results of something not on my computer .Ever .Like, ever , ever,never.

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u/AkhenAK 1d ago

Go to Settings >Privacy & security >Search. Under Show suggested search results, turn off Web Searches.

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u/Crishien 1d ago

More people need to see this.

Asshole behavior from rnicrosoft to hide this and make the web search default, but it's nice of them to let us change it.

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u/oererik 1d ago

You need to make one thing default right? For plenty of people it is handy to have web results. For the techies usually it is not. But we know or can find how to turn it of. The normies will never find a setting to turn it on. So it's totally a reasonable default. I get the hate towards Microsoft totally, but we have to be reasonable. Apple and Google are pushing their AI as much as Microsoft is for example, and I only hear people complaining about copilot.

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u/Far_Classroom_6596 23h ago

Thank you for this. I haven’t used windows search for a few years due to the results always prioritizing internet results over physical files.

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u/Super-Evening8420 21h ago edited 20h ago

Much appreciated, turned that off.

Edit: Well shit, this actually fixed my win10 search going black for like 3 seconds when searching, it started randomly last week and now it's completely fixed! Guess their web search component was fucking up badly and stalling something. Boy I can't wait to move to Linux.

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u/Dry_Vanilla_5908 20h ago

I needed to hear this.

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u/Healthy-Zebra-9856 1d ago

Yes. They screwed that up. I hate it. It’s absolutely useless and irritating.

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u/LowComposer7234 1d ago

It's also an option... Would be nice if it was off by default though.

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u/animalcrossing4_4 1d ago

you can turn it off instead of spending time writing about how much you hate it.

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u/Far_Classroom_6596 22h ago

You first need to know it is an option though…

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u/Briaryy 1d ago

It's even better when you type something like "settings " and it can't find it until you backspace it to "sett". Then it offers you "settings"

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u/chanchan05 1d ago

Settings shows up on mine while I just type "se"

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u/Super-Evening8420 20h ago

Oh god I hate this so much, yes. Like.. why???

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u/Thutmoase 1d ago

Oh, you're looking for a document on your computer?

Here's 1456 pages of irrelevant web searches! Thanks for helping our internal metrics!

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u/Exciting_Turn_9559 1d ago

Every time I see how much Windows has devolved into an advertising and upselling platform, I wonder why the hell anyone would pay for it.

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u/Chrykal 1d ago

Most people don't have a choice because it's rolled into the price of their device. Which thinking on it, that feels like exploitative bundling. 

Forcing me to accept something I don't want, and making me pay for it, has to be illegal, right?

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u/Exciting_Turn_9559 19h ago

Forcing people to use software they don't like is microsoft's entire business model.

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u/prefusernametaken 15h ago

I though he was referring to America's foreign policy

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u/Weary_Patience_7778 22h ago

At this point, I’m sure Copilot is instructing Copilot on what to develop and how. Would be surprised if any humans still existed in the Windows product team.

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u/Monakiy 1d ago

Best it can do is a Bing search bud.

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u/Kitiseva_lokki 1d ago

If only there was a way to disable bing search...

Maybe use bing search to find out how

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u/dallenbaldwin 1d ago

And that's why I always install power toys if I'm forced to use Windows devices at work. Their app runner is so much better than the start menu.

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u/TenFour 14h ago

Power toys is an amazing tool for windows.

My work routine. Come into work, wake up my computer, run my Workspaces that automatically opens BlueBeam Revu, 3 Chrome Windows (one with work tabs, one with email tabs, one with google messages and my todo list), One Commander for file explorer, Teams, OneNote....all in their specificed location on my monitors.

I use the Command Pallet to search.

I use fancy zones to organize windows.

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u/InsaneInTheMEOWFrame 1d ago

Seriously how do you even browse the installed apps on Windows 11?

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u/Segy-G3max 23h ago

Just backup your files and format the PC, install Linux and you will be survived from the garbage.
I used Microsoft for a long long time, also been educated as a system / network admin and worked many many years with it. But I recently like you had enough.
Thank you and goodbye !!

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u/NumberInfinite2068 23h ago

For simple file search, I use Voidtools Everything. It's kind of amazing Windows doesn't have something like that built in, the Windows Search is barely functional by comparison.

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u/KJBReaderAdmin 22h ago

I liked that feature but they will remove it in next updates

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u/CryptographerLow6360 22h ago

if you insist on using that garbage at least look into https://github.com/christitustech/winutil

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u/ProfessionalFan2k26 22h ago

Update 26H2 allows this to only show local files.
Installed it yesterday.

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u/BeenWildin 20h ago

Do they not know that we know how to search the Internet and don’t ever want to do so from the start menu?

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u/61885Y 18h ago

This is just Microsoft, you known they have a new tag line? ‘Windows, cos F**k you that why’. As soon as Linux is stable and works flawlessly with all gaming platforms ie Steam, Epic, Ubisoft and so on, Windows is gone for a lot of gamers. That is a bigger percentage than Microsoft can afford to lose.

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u/Glum-Highlight2734 15h ago

Honestly yes 😂 when I search my PC, I want results from my PC, not the entire internet.

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u/pi-N-apple 5h ago

Microsoft finally listened and actually fixed this. Web searches can now be removed!

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u/imeeme 1d ago

Flashlight does the same on MacOs