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Re:Misbehaving Microsoft Teams ad brings down the entire Win... by BizarroLand on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @07:07PM (#28450955)
For me, in Windows 10, I can type "calc" into the search menu and it will recommend and open the calendar app instead of the calculator app 2 out of 5 times.

I will search for an app that I have installed and instead of opening the app it will open a bing search for the app that I have installed.

It's so infuriating that if there were a M$ rep within arm reach I might be tempted to do violence towards them.

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Re:Misbehaving Microsoft Teams ad brings down the entire Win... by easton on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @08:48PM (#28451630)
From a command prompt (you shouldn't need admin rights), run "REG ADD HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer /v DisableSearchBoxSuggestions /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f", which disables the web search suggestions in the registry. After restarting Windows Explorer (or logging off and back on), you should have search work how you'd expect.
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Re:Misbehaving Microsoft Teams ad brings down the entire Win... by BizarroLand on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @11:49AM (#28458821)
Nice. That's super helpful!
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Re:Misbehaving Microsoft Teams ad brings down the entire Win... by eric__cartman on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @08:23PM (#28451465)
The search function in Windows 10 is pathetic. It almost seems like an April fool's joke that was left in place for too long. What is double stupid is that MS already had a working search built into the shell in Windows 7. It's like they don't understand that no one ever woke up one day and thought to themselves, "I hope I could search the web using the start menu in Windows".
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Re:Misbehaving Microsoft Teams ad brings down the entire Win... by jwitthuhn on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @08:30PM (#28451516)
I would suspect that someone on the Bing team woke up one day and thought to themself "I know exactly how to increase our search metrics"
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Re:Misbehaving Microsoft Teams ad brings down the entire Win... by hulitu on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @04:20PM (#28462523)
Old school people use Win + R -> calc -> enter
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