Adding websearch to the start bar’s search was solving a problem that didn’t exist. If I want to search the web, I can use a web browser to do it. I feel like it was added to try to make up for how bad the search used to be (and still is? I just never really had a habit of using it because it was so unreliable and depended on other ways to figure out where things were), so that it would give something, plus MS really wanted bing to be a thing.
I recently switched to KDE and their main search bar also includes web search. I haven’t looked at the settings for it and expect there’s probably a way to disable that, but I didn’t feel great about seeing that there.
Ironic…
Wait until corporate america figures this out, outrnext big blockbusters: cmd, taskmgr and devmgmt
I’m pretty excited about the Wget miniseries.
I read that as ministries, and i’d be down either way :)
As a software dev I wonder how does this even happen?
- The movie snippet somehow has bigger weight for ordering - why would that ever be preferred?
- The ordering is random?
- The movie snippet is faster than App and Folder snippets?
It’s incredible how incompetent Microsoft is.
The bigger weight is anything that MS can sell for ad revenue.
They just use the profit amount as the weight and sort descending
but in this example clearly Wikipedia and probably IMDB are not paying them right? Or is it their attempt to disguise selling out by always preferring the buyable option even when it’s at 0$?
I run enterprise to disable this trash behaviour on my gaming rig. I unfortunately want to play some titles that have predatory anti cheat :(
Open start menu:
Windows: TODAY IS THE INTERNATIONAL DAY OF TOAST BREAD!! want to know more?
or when you speed type something and it just opens edge and searches bing for the app you tried to open
Win+x, a, left, enter. Admin power shell in a quick combo.
But I also get what you are saying. I’m leaving windows because of this. Migrating my services ATM then the last thing will be my win10 desktop.
I do press Windows + R, then type cmd and hit enter.
When I recently upgrade a hundred windows 10 machines to 11 the majority of the keyboard time to do this was disabling all that shit.
Just use copilot to write a powershell script to disable all the crap Windows 11 ads.
so much “user friendly”
Am I the only person that still types “command” in the search? It’s windows who is typing “terminal”?
Yes I know it’s a terminal, but it’s never been called that AFAIK. It’s always been the command prompt.
Not long now until you see this:
Best Match
Today I typed “power” for powershell and I got this : https://www.imdb.com/fr/title/tt3281796/
The newest windows terminal is called “terminal”.
I used to type “cwd”, but after installing terminal, I type “terminal”. Probably same situation for OP.
chronic wasting disease does seem appropriate for windows
My M turned upside down. I’m leaving it like this
I type “CMD” or “power”
CMD
power
We Just Can’t Win
Power gives you the power series, LOL
Win + x, then i. If you want admin hit a instead of i.
ctrl+r “cmd” return
for me
On the one (windows) machine i actively use powershell i click the pinned start menu icon.
Windows has fucked my flow before by co opting my shortcuts. So this is the most reliable way.
On linux terminal is a shortcut, app launcher is a shortcut and searching apps to launch actually works and doesn’t open my browser that operates under a different privacy contract then your os settings.
I despised windows search long before i switched i just didn’t know any better.
On my one remaining Windows machine, I installed PowerToys and use the “Run” launcher. Alt+Space opens Run. If you lead with a
.you’ll search programs.Alt+Space, .term, for example, should immediately show Terminal and you can slap enter to open it. You can also do stuff like= 1 + 1or= 0b101 + 0xffor quick calculations,%for unit conversion (%% 10MB to Mb), etc. It’s not KRunner, dmenu, etc but it definitely beats the hell out of the start menu.PowerToys “Keyboard Manager” might let you reclaim some shortcuts as well. I used it to swap Caps Lock and Escape but I’m pretty sure it can be used to create custom shortcuts. There’s also some option to remap shortcuts on a program specific basis. So you can say
Alt+Tshould sendCtrl+Tbut only when Firefox has focus, for example. Haven’t messed with it myself but I can see the value.Still looking forward to ditching Windows entirely but, in the meantime, MS has some decent tools that aren’t included by default and don’t seem to be advertised because power users aren’t the target market and “they already know to look for it” I guess.
the windows key + r will open the Run command window, seems a lot easier then what you did for that but the other stuff PowerToys do is worth it
ahem Linux.
Thank you.
