For my “convenience” and because in this way they can show ads and clickbait

Also: I SET A FUCKING GROUP POLICY THAT DISABLES THE SEARCH BAR; WHY THEY FUCKING IGNORE IT???

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        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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        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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          You can remove the Internet search and make it do normal search pretty easily. I know I know you shouldn’t have to, just saying putting an hour into cleaning Windows is worth.

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            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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              It’s a single registry key or a single group policy edit, and I’m not talking to the average user, I’m talking to Lemmy users.

              I’m saying as far as annoyances in windows go, this is incredibly simple to change if you are at all familiar with tweaking advanced windows shit.

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                I mean, thats fair. But as it currently is the search bar is basically worthless to the average user now as well. I guess my point is that a basic computer search function shouldnt require advanced comfortablility with computers to be able to acquire

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                  Oh I agree completely. I also think a lot of people just don’t realize that many of the things they think of as part of Windows can be tweaked or removed, so they just sit there assuming they have to live with it when there’s a fix that most people could implement if they google a how-to guide (or they could ask their nerdy friend).

                  I love helping friends set up Windows installs, because they’re always so shocked at how little clutter there is and how well everything works. At the same time it makes me mad that all of that is necessary at all, and I’m swearing at Microsoft the whole time I’m helping them.

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      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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        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.