Microsoft released Windows 11 Insider Preview Build number 25281 in the Dev Channel last night and this test version also brings some interesting new features, most notably an option for editor tabs. In addition, this preview offers new setting designs and also the exemption of the widgets from the account requirement.
However, such preview builds always have hidden functions and information that is “buried” in other ways. That also applies to version 25281 and there has Windows Enthusiast PhantomOcean3 discovers that a previously introduced or tested functionality is being canceled (via Neowin).
This is what the DesktopSearchBox would have looked like
Experiment DesktopSearchBox finally dead
Microsoft introduced the so-called DesktopSearchBox for the first time last May with Build 25120. However, this search bar was hidden from the start, two months later this feature was deactivated there as well with version 25158. However, this functionality has not been completely removed from the code, this has only happened now, writes PhantomOcean3 on Twitter. But it’s not difficult to explain why such a desktop search box didn’t exactly find many friends: Because here an oblong search box placed itself in the middle of the workspace of Windows 11, it was essentially like a Google start page for the desktop – with the The difference was that Microsoft’s Bing was used as the default search engine.
Alternative: PowerToys Run
If you would still like to have such a search bar, you can install a similar or comparable solution now, namely with the help of Microsoft’s own PowerToys: There is the feature called PowerToys Run, which opens a search field with Alt+Space with which you can browse the computer, but can also start websites.
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