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Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22000.71 to everyone in the Dev Channel! Changes and Improvements We’re introducing a new entertainment widget! The entertainment widget allows you to see new and featured movie titles available in the Microsoft...

Hello Windows Insiders, We are so excited to have so many of you running the first preview of Windows 11 and we’re busy looking at all your feedback that’s coming in. Today we are releasing an update (Build 22000.65) to everyone in the Dev Channel with a good set of improvements and fixes that...

My equipment: Toshiba laptop, W10 Pro The new Edge browser used to work very well, but for a while now I've been getting "Error 502, bad Gateway" every time I try a search. My Firefox browser works fine, but I'm still curious why Edge is misbehaving. I was trying Vivaldi browser recently and...

Just like the title says, i am able to search for my documents and i can find them but when i double click to open the message comes up saying "there was an error opening this document. This file cannot be found."

The search bos in windows explorer is greyed and I can't type anything in it. The Search task in Task Manager is missing. Perhaps that's the problem. How do I fix it?

The search bar in windows explorer is greyed out and I can't type anyting in it. In Task Manager there is no Search task. Perhaps that is the reason. HJow do I get the Search task back?

OK so I had a conversation with a friend back in late November about some guy (Jordan Peterson) I saw presenting an interesting lecture on YouTube, he responds to me saying he appreciated that person too and suggested I look up another speaker whom he refers to as an "intellectual". Now, for...

Hi, I'd like the start bar to only bring up programs I have installed when I search for one and not show the suggestions that refer to the My Documents folder items, is there a way to do this? Thanks in advance.

Hello everyone, I have this problem many people have had, it seems: Windows search stopped working all of a sudden. It may be because of a Windows update, it may not, I couldn't say. I've tried everything I could find on Google but no luck. The problem seems to be located at the search...

Hello, I recently bought a new laptop and have transferred over my large photography library. On many of my pictures I have added tags: on my old laptop, whenever I started typing in the tags box in the details pane, a dropdown list of tags would appear. On my new laptop, initially this dropdown...

I installed vista onto a vista laptop using an iso I downloaded which was supposed to do vista 64 but for some reason it has installed 32 bit, anyway, I use the vista product key code stuck to the botttom of the laptop. I used the physical disconnect button for the wifi during install and it did...

how to cure the windows search bar black box

I've disabled Windows 10 search via services, but it's still loads. Any ideas? I want it to disappear completely. Thanks, Nylo W10 Tablet

I'm trying to remove the Cortana and search icon from the taskbar, but when I right-click on the taskbar I get a incomplete menu. The second photo is what it should look like. What am I doing wrong? Thanks, Nylo Dell Venue Pro 8 tablet Win 10 Home Link Removed

Hello Windows Insiders, today we’re releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20170 to Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel. PLEASE NOTE: Windows Insiders with PCs that have AMD processors will not be offered this build today due to a bug impacting overall usability of these PCs. The issue...

Search button on taskbar, and typing in start menu/start screen no longer works. It does nothing. At the same time, Timeline history does not show up. (even if it's enabled on settings) I tried searching online methods such as windows troubleshooter, resetting index, sfc command, powershell...

I'm a photographer who likes to organize my files using tags - landscape, birds, place, etc. I've tagged all of my photos but when I try to use File Explorer to search for files by one of the tags, the only tag option that displays is "unspecified". No matter what I do it doesn't seem to work...

Since I updated yesterday to this version File Explorer search does not work at all. I assume it is because you are using cortana/online/live search which I have all turned off in group policy because I do not want any search or info on my private computer going through anyone else's servers...

Search in Windows Server 2016 is very weak, For example, as I tried to search “Power”, the “power option” is not populated! What could be the issue here? Is there a way to enhance the search in Windows Server 2016?

The title is so due to my lack of better words to describe the problem. Also, I don't know if the term I used ("preview mode") is what it really is called, or not, so please pardon me. As you can see in the above, I am getting a link "Open in Browser", when I press the right arrow, which is...