A tiny free app fixes Windows 11's forced Edge and Bing search in the Start menu
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Michael Crider
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The author expresses frustration with Windows 11, particularly its forced integration of Microsoft Edge and Bing search in the Start menu. They've tried various workarounds that stopped working due to Microsoft updates. The article discusses discovering a tiny free app that finally fixes this annoyance, making the author dislike Windows 11 a little less.
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· 3 pulledI like Windows 11 a lot less than I liked Windows 10—and that was before it started advertising to me incessantly and filling up every nook and cranny of the experience with 'AI' I neither wanted nor asked for.
One of the oldest annoyances is that it still demands I use Microsoft's Edge browser and Bing search for everything, including the searches made in the otherwise very handy Start menu search.
I've previously tried various remedies for this thorn in the side of my PC experience, but Microsoft has patched and updated Windows often enough that they've all stopped working.
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