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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!
I mean... KDE can do it just fine.
You can just disable web search through the settings app now.
It's simple, really.
If the first results are a web search, you wouldn't notice how terrible the local search indexing is.
I legitimately cannot believe how comically powerful medium level hardware has become yet the windows user experience is so much shittier than it was almost 20 years ago. I remember school machines struggling less to power up on 1gb ram and a one core machine that my gaming rig does sometimes. Windows is such a fucking waste of computing power.
You can. I've had it off for years. It just needs a registry update, and persists across updates.
And people say Linux is not user-friendly
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
I have it turned off. But maybe that option is not available outside of EU? I don't know.
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'm using keypirinha and haven't opened the startmenu for years
Some suggestions:
Winaero Tweaker
winutil
BetterOS
NTLite
Really, its Linux that makes you spend all your time debugging issues and fixing things.