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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!
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
Half the changes in Linux are also editing random config files, so it's about the same
At least they have cool names are easy to change and easy to find (except when they aren't).
I mean... KDE can do it just fine.
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/
You can just disable web search through the settings app now.
I'm using keypirinha and haven't opened the startmenu for years