Windows 11 Search is an Ad Cesspool! Here’s How To Fix It
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- Опубликовано: 14 июл 2024
- Windows "Search Highlights" have practically turned the Search menu and parts of the Taskbar into a billboard for ads. In this video I show you how to fix the problem, as well as a number of aditional tweaks that will help you reduce the amount of ads and suggested content that can appear in other parts of Windows.
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Windows: you pay for the license, and then they still want to make more money from you with a bunch of ads
Get a copy of Windows server or LTSC. Free or paid.
That's how you get away form it.
Also Windows: Oh wait, there's more! *(instantly putting the full screen "Let's finish set up your device" prompt every few days in your screen just to force you to subscribe to the Microsoft 365 services)*
I find it interesting that no anti-virus program recognizes Windows Adware, spyware, and malware as Potentially unwanted programs and allows you to delete the problem.
That's almost true, when I tried to go to Microsoft Start, my AVG Antivirus blocked it
It's become tremendously annoying how every third party is just on board with all this stuff.
Antivirus barely does anything anyways. A canny mind is the best antivirus.
At this point Windows 11 as a whole is a PUP.
Turning off the search button is first thing I do on the newly installed windows
Why would you have it on anyway since to search you need to click. same as if you'd just use the start menu like a normal person.
@@white_mask13 it's a fast way of finding files.
@@Distress. just press the start button and start typing. no need to click.
@@sierra991 yea that too I am just comparing it to the search bar
@@Distress. start search and the search bar are the same thing. Also if you want to find files quickly just use "Fluent Search"
You know something is going on if they are THIS desperate for money that they are integrating ads literally into the search itself.
Integrating ads into Search is fairly normal and expected, but placing ads on File Explorer is an absolute no.
@@astral6749 I won't be surprised if that happens since it has already happened in the Xiaomi mobile devices
No company this big is "desperate" for money, they just want bigger and bigger profit margins
love your banner pic btw xD
@@DETahaX thank
It's better to use the "everything" app from void tools to find files. The Windows 11 search is slow and next to useless for trying to locate files.
That and the start button is much faster on Window 10 too then using start. Start has not worked right since Windows 8.
This is truly the year of the Linux desktop.
Nah.
Ads are annoying, sure. But windows easily passes the good enough criteria for me.
How much ever you try, out of the box everything works Linux isn't there yet. Steam deck probably fastened the pace with game support but no it isn't there.
@@anomanderrake5434 Linux just works out of the box though?
@Linden Reaper if it is so easy to use out of the box, why haven't people used it yet. It should be going big. Your coming from a super user perspective, how many times do you use the terminal? If you wanna debug something (which happens in windows too every so often, it's straight forward to search), but in Linux you will have to specify os, version and other quirks.
If you had watched the Linus tech tips Linux challenge, you would know the amount of hurdles he had to climb.
The year of the Linux desktop is a meme, it will never happen. It's kinda the reverse moore's law. You keep saying this while the opposite happens.
@@croozerdog Till you have to do something or find something that's not inside your "appstore" GUI. That's when it shits the bed.
The more I hear about windows 11, the less I'm inclined to upgrade from Windows 10. I'm still happy with windows 10.
Yeah but windows 10 is crashing for some reason on my new laptop
Windows 10 still has these ads
If the latest video on this channel is true, then we have only until 2025 for our Win10s.
Do not even use Windows at all. Switch to the Linux side.
@@AgentX-dh3lf Not feasible for most applications.
Thanks for watching out for us. Really enjoy your content!
Great video, just what I was looking for this time. Short and to the point. Thanks a lot, keep up the great videos.
I've used MacOS and Linux for two decades now. Recently I tried Windows 11 and I thought I had fallen into a parallel universe filled with ADS.
Huh?
Stop exaggerating dude.
If you are a person like me who cared about ads, you would have switched all of it off during the windows setup itself.
This search thing annoyed me when I first opened it too, went to google, found the settings switched them all off. Took me 10 mins.
Where are all these ads showing up for you ?
@Watcher Telemetry doesn't affect me. I use Google, android, maps. Apple cut the competition by stopping fb from tracking in iPhone and started their own business of showing ads in App store and other places. You can't escape data mining.
At the end of the day, if it doesn't affect my day to day work. I am all fine for it.
@Anomander Rake I installed a virus scanner and while I bought it, it keeps bugging me. When I open the browser I get ads. I get ads in the notification center. I did not buy a computer to get ads but to get work done.
@@anomanderrake5434 That's only part of the problem. You can turn off the ads in Windows NOW. But at the next Microsoft shareholders meeting Mr Word Salad Satay Nadella, Brad Smith and Panos who talks about his family, will all promise the ad vendors more intrusive access to your computer. Then by sheer coincidence the options to "turn off" the ads won't be there, or, in cunning evil typical of Microsoft, the "options" will say that they turn off the ads but ...
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Thanks for the extensive walk-through
Then there's me: refusing to upgrade to Windows 11
I saw the update and instantly went through my settings to get rid of the horrendous feature
Tysm! This is absolutely ridiculous, and for people like me, distracts me from focussing on my work lol
Thank you so much for letting me know how to get my system "clean" 👍
thank you for sharing! Very needed.
Thank you I appreciate the simple video to better my windows experience
Fantastic channel. I had it recently recommended by YT so hopefully things are turning around for it. Keep up the good work and ty for making my Win 11 laptop significantly more add free 👍 (edit: typos)
I just figured this out... thanks man! lol this whole time I was ignoring it. but it's much better being cleaner
Just leave it as a search icon, looks cleaner and no ads
You have always been able to type immediately after pressing the windows key (on screen or keyboard) to search..
My only issue on Win11 is that I have to wait for the animation to complete before I can type.
Wow I usually disable all of these things as soon as I see them, but for search highlights I just didn't find the setting at all before
Super useful, thanks!
I'm commenting just to boost the algo, love your vids
Thank you so much!
That janky and ugly icon is so annoying and it's exactly what brought me here. Thank you so much! I just got a new laptop and I thought it's got an illegitimate Windows installed because of that 😂
Thank you so much!!
I love that windows is paid for software (expensive paid for software) yet it’s full of ads and spyware as if it was a free to play mobile game. Even the super expensive “pro version” installs candy crush and tik and a spy’s on everything you do. It’s disgusting. Most people pirate windows anyway so I don’t get why they don’t just make windows free and call it a day. At least then they could justify all this garbage.
i almost bought a legitimate Windows license- I'm glad I didn't
I'm glad I switched to Linux years ago.
I would, but I game a lot and gaming for linux isn't quite there yet. I also have trouble learning new operating systems, so I'm kinda forced to stick with Windows.
I'm a developer and for my next developer rig I'm definitely going for Linux.
Got any tips for me?
@@darealmexury Have you tried it yet?
Excellent advice.
Thanks so much!
Thank you! this jstu started happening to me today freaking windows. My next machine will be an apple ...or linux.
thats actually cool for decoration
Usually my search bar only shows up some points of interest all over the world. I guess it is useful for someone who likes to travel often but I just don't mind it.
Didn't even bother finding out. Turned it off the minute it showed up in my taskbar lol.
it's at a point where making your own iso with NTlite and taking 25 minutes of your time is a better solution than fighting the OS directly. By ripping things off the iso and repackaging it, you save a lot of time from the get go.
My custom w11 iso has no modern apps, no ads, no telemetry, no hibernation, no search, no cortana, no edge, disables the need for a msft account and forces a local one and that's only a small part of what i removed. You boot it and all you have is a minimal installation that's ready to use.
of course, i don't use w11 on bare metal (i use it in vmware on linux) but, even in a vm, you feel the difference in performance between stock windows and debloated.
alongside linux, i have windows 10 LTSC, it's the best windows ever as it is already pre-debloated and is official from microsoft
How do people even think having an os with ads built in and so much authority to delay your work just to deploy more data collection "updates" that you 99% dont need (aside from security ones, i guess). Linux really needs to get everything into one, rock-solid, "it just works" distro that also has a very intuitive UI and is an easy replacement for Windows. I guess Linux Mint does this, but imho the UI is still a bit dated. Microsoft isn't even trying, it took them over 10 years to bring something as simple as file manager tabs that linux already had. They literally deserve to be defeated, linux just needs more unity and adoption.
@D Reaper yes i consider myself an intermediate linux user. After ~6 months of only linux i came back to dual boot due to poor vm performance. Now using windows again i have to say, it feels lacking. That is especially in the performance department, i mainly use vscode and on linux my compilations were very snappy, always felt like below half a second. Now on windows vscode they sometimes even take 1~2 seconds which feels so much slower coming from linux now. The following week i have to use windows but afterwards i will focus on getting back on linux, still cant decide if i should stick with gnome (i used it exclusively within those 6 months of only linux) or try something with a ton of costumization like kde.
@Linden Reaper yes i know about kvm, i followed a tutorial but it is very difficult to do gpu passthrough on a laptop with only integrated graphics (like in my case).
And also yes, i do hate microsoft and especially windows updates breaking the dual boot, thats why i had linux-only instead of dual boot before this. I did find an askubuntu post explaining how to basically set windows bootloader efi as inactive from within linux, which will stop windows from overwriting grub. I also have a small usb linux drive always with my keys, just in case.
You have got to be kidding! That is a lot to go through to maybe have privacy. Thanks for the video.
I have a feeling some update will remove this feature for users so they have to see content, just they can change it so it is relevant to the searches they do.
The presence of ads and pseudo-ads in W11 has made me finally turn to Linux full-time. My last Windows box will be moved over the day Windows 10 goes EOL, if not before.
I have it on Windows 10 too.
This is the first thing I did after installing Windows 11.
I usually also turn of widgets but then it looked weird with that empty hole so I moved the icons to the left (kinda like windows 10)and it looks muuuch better now
Tell me how to enable image in search box again , i did it by enable highlights but won't return once again..thanx
Stay Strong 💪
Thx
hi, if i whant that the images apear but it only shows the bing icon, what can i do? help please
bing is spyware
Is there a way of doing this in Windows 10?
MS CEO has a T-Shirt with "Microsoft... delivering stuff that nobody wants.". And he's proud of it. ;)
Thnks bro
File explorer options looks straight from windoze 95.
Windoze NT finally.
BRO PLEASE HELP I LOVE THIS IMAGE ON SEARCHBAR BUT IT DOESNOT OCCUR ONLY THE BING AI ICON OCCURS I HAD DONE A LOT OF THINGS TO GET THE IMAGES PLEASE MAKE A VIDEO TO SOLVE THIS ISSUE .
same
Your not the only channel they killed... Recommendations is broken. It use to refresh and show new vids if you didn't like what was listed there.. Now it doesn't change at all and depreciated subs you haven't watched in sometime.
I have just zone it out. Didn't even notice it
They brought back the mario brothers Easter egg
Tiny 11 for the win at least to me. Much nicer
Just upgraded to Zorin OS lol
Huge missed opportunity for them to move the search box to the left
Same reason i disabled the widgets panel
Windows 11 is Microsoft's response to Amazon temporarily leading the "Charge customers to see ads" competition in the modern digital space.
fun google secrets - part 9
so.. google easter eggs part 9 will be in the future
Yes
i actually tried linux on my secondary out of home laptop - it's viable for me, i surely can daily drive it, but it's flawed enough to be clearly behind w10, that just works. however, if it goes like this at the time w10 is eol w11 is going to be clearly not an option to move forward.
@@Watcher4361 What should they package their software as? Because it's lose lose.
If you package it as a flatpak, it won't be on the biggest distro. if you package it as a snap you will make people mad. and packaging it as an appimage doesn't inregrate with the system. It sucks that linux has it's own "HD-DVD VS blueray" war.
@@SYS_Alberto False, try linux mint instead.
the Widgets menu is a huge ad minefield as well. it's just constant useless news recommendations, with literally no way to remove them. some buttons look like they are tabs that take you to other parts of the UI, but they open Miscrosoft Edge instead. it's infuriating
it's really frustrating, because i do enjoy having the weather in my taskbar, it's kinda convenient. but even the idea of this panel existing, even tho i can chose to never open it, is just, why
it also makes me feel like Microsoft changed strategy to push you to use Edge: instead of constantly reminding you/forcing you to change your default browser, it just puts links everywhere to content that opens in Edge regardless of your settings
3:24 fin.
Trust me, stay with windows 10. I lost the key feature of finding items in my favorites. I used it all of the time. I want it back.
ma'man. Thanks
I called this would happen and was labelled and mocked as an idiot linux user.
Vindication is common, but never expect the mockers to remember.
Remember Windows owns you, you do not own Windows.
Windows 11: No, I don't want that
lovely
I genuinely have no idea why people don't like ads or suggested content. I don't think I've disabled any of these settings but I don't find the ads or other stuff intrusive at all. Why be so cautious? I'm not hating, just curious
Why on gods earth would you want ads on YOUR PC, would you be okay if I put a billboard free of charge on your house or property?
@@SYS_Alberto it's not that bad
Stop being a retarded simp for big companies harvesting your data and pushing ads.
Just stop.
dude, you pretty much have to disable all 4 options, not just the 2 you picked, do you even read?
Install Windows 10?
Windows is just intrusive, you don't have control over that. The only way to excape MS's dirty data collection is to switch to linux.
Thats why it has a free upgrade and not a paid one. They make the money from the ads instead.
@@katsudon2048 bro mad at words 💀
@@mourgos1234 But they don't have to do it slyly and forcefully. Users should have the right to share whatever they want to share. Not to have intrusive, stocker-like data-collecting acts on them.
@@DETahaX i agree
@@katsudon2048 lol, I thought the same thing. It's worse than Apple-Fanboys.
02:35 the only 100% way is to never connent to internet
It could be better if they do like goole and just give us that shit on special day
that feature is ripped out of Windows 10.
MICROSOFT, STOP CALLING IT 11 IF ITS 10 WITH A NEW INTERFACE
after using windows for 15 years. i will switch to macbook in 2 months
If they were really clever, they'd just not include those settings
😃
I'm still on win 10. Won't be switching soon to 11. I'm starting to understand the Linux community, but it's still not ready to become mainstream.
@D Reaper i am using mint on a secondary device. Not my main one yet. I depend on 3d software that use Nvidia cards so not yet ready.
@@dreaper2087 Thx for the suggestion. I might just do that!
Wow, Microsoft really wants to make Windows unusable... I hope Linux gets a boost in popularity and many turn their back on Windows...
mioos
Windows has so many "features" nobody asked for!
The highlight section is so cringe!
"Ad menu"
😂😂😂😂
I just thought they were cute little art, i had a cute frog on the search bar :(
Recently updated to windows 11 by accident. It's the worst interface ever for me!
Or maybe switch to an OS without ads. Feel free to be triggered.
11 is a hot mess. The one single feature that Windows did better than macOS was labels on the taskbar- now GONE! Why?
Windows 10 enjoyers represent
Windows 11 really confuse me
How about don't use windows 11, it's on the bad release cycle.