Windows 10: One Drive Synch is not only very slow, but seems to also interfere with Edge web searches...

Ever since getting a new laptop with Windows 11 in October, One Drive has made my life miserable. First, it offered to transfer files...well, sort of. I do not recall asking it to just jumble all my files together into some nebulous web file where I have to know the name to search. That is god awful stupid. Who designed that, a frosh engineer? Just stupid. So, some of the flies came over to the desktop. The rest are no longer in folders aside from the 20 or 30 that did show up and are now, according to what I see online, in the alternate One Drive universe. I could have **** there that I wa

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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.

 

Microsoft Edge slow in typing in various web site search column

Edge started acting strange last couple of days.

For example, when I type a movie title or name of a director at Blu-ray, Blu-ray Movies, Blu-ray Players, Blu-ray Reviews, the list of suggested titles or names shows up at the bottom of search column. It certainly does when I do the same search using IE or Firefox or Chrome. With Edge
the suggested list no longer shows up (it used to be working before).

Or with this site; The Reflecting Skin Blu-ray - Viggo Mortensen, If I search a name of a director or a tile of a movie,

it freezes for a longer time, and taking the results takes a longer time. And I tried to put mouse into the blank search column, it takes a longer time to respond (I can not type another word for a 10-15 seconds).

I did the following; Updating Windows 10; clearing browsing data from Edge; Repair + Reset by going to Settings-Apps & Features, and none of them worked.

If anyone knows how to resolve this issue, please let me know.

Thanks

 

Disable Store and Web search in Start Menu

Hello
SystemSupport346,

Since the steps above did not work for you, we suggest that you disable web search by navigating the settings of Cortana itself. Please follow the steps below:

• Open the search box in the taskbar.
• Click the Notebook icon.
• Click Settings from the list.
• On the Settings page, turn off the Cortana can give me suggestions, ideas, reminders, alerts and more option.
• Turn off the Search online and include web results. See screenshot below:
  
  
  
  

Hope this information helps you. Feel free to post back if you need further assistance.