Windows 10: Microsoft improves Windows 11 search with even more things you may not need

This week, Microsoft introduced the new Search highlights feature in the released Insider build for its Windows 11 operating system. Search highlights extend the operating system's search functionality with "notable and interesting moments" that highlight what is "special" about the day, or content from organizations.



Search highlights changes the Windows Search startpage significantly. Currently, Windows 11 users get a list of top apps to launch directly and quick search links that open web results.

Under the new Windows Search home interface, users get a larger list of recent apps that they opened, and an even larger area with content that is provided by Microsoft. Users who are not signed-in to a work or school account get web content such as trending searches, as well as daily global or regional highlights.

The search box in Start and Search will periodically update with content, including fun illustrations, that help you discover more, be connected, and stay productive. These hints in the search box give you a sneak peek into what to expect in search home.

Search highlights will present notable and interesting moments—like holidays, anniversaries, and other educational moments in time both globally and in your region. You’ll find rich, bold content in search home that highlights what’s special about today.
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Users who are signed in with a work or school account returns the organization's files and contacts in Search home.

Search highlights will feature the latest updates from your organization and suggested people, files, and more. Explore files that may be of interest to you or browse through your organization’s people chart. As always, just start typing to find everything related to your organization, right at your fingertips using Search.
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Windows administrators may turn off the new search highlights feature under Settings > Privacy & Security > Search Settings > Show search highlights. Organization administrators find additional options in the Microsoft 365 admin center.

Microsoft plans to push search highlights to users of its Windows 10 operating system as well in the future.

Closing words

Search highlights, at least the variant for home Windows 11 systems, is the latest effort by Microsoft to bring more web content to its operating systems. How useful is the new experience? Considering that the main function of search is to find content, it appears to fall into the less useful category, even for users who run web searches from Windows' search interface.

While it is possible to disable search highlights, it is usually the case that most users will keep features like it enabled, unless they get too annoying or in the way.

Windows users who want Search to focus on local results find in search highlights another feature that they may want to turn off.

Now You: will you keep search highlights enabled or turn it off?

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Edge Search Does Not Permit Change of Region


I got these suggestions from the Microsoft Community forum.No. 1 worked for me:

Thank you for posting the query on Microsoft Community. I am glad to assist you on this.
We have reproduce the issue here and we are able to access non-regional search for google using Microsoft Edge.
I would suggest you to try the below steps and check if it helps.
Step 1:
Clear browsing data option of Microsoft Edge and check if you face the issue. To do so perform the steps below.

1. Click on the More actions icon next to the feedback icon present on top right corner of the Project Spartan homepage.
2. Select Settings and click on Choose what to clear.
3. Check the boxes Browsing history, Cookies and saved website data and Cached data and files and click on Clear.

Step 2:
I suggest you to create a new user account and check if the issue occurs.

1. Go to Settings.
2. Choose Accounts and then select Family and other users.
3. Select add someone else on this PC.
4. Enter a user name and hit next.
5. Click on Finish.
6. Sign out from the current Account and Log into the new account.

Step 3:
It could also happen because of network issue. I suggest you to try with different network connection and check if it helps.

 

Things to improve in the Nokia 5300 (realistically)

I'm collecting a list of feasible ideas of what to improve on the Nokia 5300. Feasible means that I don't want to ask for features that would be totally new, but rather bugfixes and incremental improvements to existing features. Things that we could
realistically hope Nokia to implement.

MUSIC PLAYER

- [1.1] improve the fast forward/rewind... 5 second steps are too slow (could be a setting, like in the media player)

- [1.2] add a "time seek" function, that gives you a 00:00:00 typable clock (like the alarm) to type in the time you want to seek to

- [1.3] bugfix the "tracks in album are in random order"

- [1.4] bugfix the library updating failure

GENERAL

- [2.1] add brightness control for screen

- [2.2] improve battery life

- [2.3] lock the keyboard without locking the direct music controls; or alternatively create a setting so that you can make it impossible to make (outgoing) calls when the slide is closed. (goal: make it safer to pocket the phone but still have music controls)

Feel free to add your own... I'll update the first post from time to time, so that it gives a complete overview of what's added through comments. Don't number your suggestions, I'll do that ;-)

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EDIT: added [2.3]

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Improvements to Microsoft Search in Bing

Source: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/...ng/ba-p/634492

See also: Introduction to Microsoft Search