[hfktktnfkgk]

One bug I've been hitting for a couple of years on Windows 10:

If the computer starts with a working Internet connection, but then you lose Internet, Start Menu search just stops working during net downtime. Meaning I type some app name like "calc" in the Start Menu search box and nothing appears! Which is absolutely ridiculous, I can't search for locally installed apps, or Windows settings. Even if I disabled Cortana and Internet search in the Statt Menu (or maybe because of it?)

And I failed to Google the problem since all the keywords combinations I tried inevitably lead to some article on how to disable Internet search in the Start Menu, so I have no idea if I'm the only one with this bug.

[DixieDev]

Can't be sure, and forgive me if this is already what you mean by disabling "Internet Search", but I suspect you are experiencing this because of Bing's involvement in the start menu search. To fix it, you have to regedit some stuff: https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/f09184/how_to_bl...

[Spivak]

I had to use the registry key as well because MS broke the GPO (I would say on purpose but anyone who is in a position to mess with GPOs knows how to edit registry keys with it as well) but it really does get rid of it for good.

[BizarroLand]

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.

[easton]

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.

[BizarroLand]

Nice. That's super helpful!

[eric__cartman]

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".

[jwitthuhn]

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"

[hulitu]

Old school people use Win + R -> calc -> enter

[flutterwascrap]

Haven't happened to me on my desktop. Maybe try updating? File a bug report?

The start menu web search is actually really good for quickly searching for things.

[hulitu]

> Haven't happened to me on my desktop. Maybe try updating? File a bug report?

You funny. Have you ever encounted a Win 10 bug ? Did you find any fix ? For example: mouse clicks extra when the mouse button is pressed (drag) or double clicks when you single click. Or Title bar and menubar/ribbon dissapears in multimonitor environment.

[fctorial]

Never encountered any of these, but there was a bug in the taskbar search box. I reported it and it stopped happening (I forgot to disable automatic updates)

[sitzkrieg]

i have hit this and it drives me nuts. not in a while though, maybe i havent tried when net down lately