--- title: Improving Windows Search Box, with less clutter and more... description: Microsoft is rolling out several improvements to the Windows Search Box for Windows Insiders in the Experimental channel. Key changes include a simplified home... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/improving-windows-search-box-with-less-clutter-and-more-control-xbecpci2b twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Improving Windows Search Box, with less clutter and more control | daily.dev og:description: Microsoft is rolling out several improvements to the Windows Search Box for Windows Insiders in the Experimental channel. Key changes include a simplified home... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/improving-windows-search-box-with-less-clutter-and-more-control-xbecpci2b og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/xbECpCi2B.png og:image:alt: Improving Windows Search Box, with less clutter and more control og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Improving Windows Search Box, with less clutter and more control **[Windows Blogs](https://daily.dev/sources/windows)** · 3 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Microsoft is rolling out several improvements to the Windows Search Box for Windows Insiders in the Experimental channel. Key changes include a simplified home screen with less visual clutter, clearer result source labels, removal of promotional content from web results, and a new setting to control whether web and Microsoft Store suggestions appear. Local results are now prioritized more reliably, app search is more typo-tolerant, settings and file search ranking has been improved, and overall reliability has been increased. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What changed in the Windows Search Box for Windows Insiders in the Experimental channel? The Windows Search Box received a rollout of improvements including a simplified home screen with less clutter, clearer labeling of where results come from (app, setting, file, web, or Store), removal of promotional content from web results, and a new toggle in Settings > Privacy & Security > Search to control whether web and Microsoft Store suggestions appear. Local results are also now prioritized over web results when they are the stronger match, and app search tolerates typos like "utlook" finding Outlook. _Track Windows search changes like this as you plan rollout testing, on daily.dev._ ### How do I stop web results from showing promotional content in Windows Search? A new setting under Settings > Privacy & Security > Search lets users choose whether web and Microsoft Store suggestions appear alongside local results at all. Separately, promotional content and related products have been removed from web results shown in search, so web results now surface the most relevant answer first instead of promotions. _Follow privacy-control changes like this Windows search setting on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Microsoft starts testing cleaner Windows Search without ads](https://daily.dev/posts/microsoft-starts-testing-cleaner-windows-search-without-ads-7vfjzdizz) · BleepingComputer · 2 upvotes · 0 comments - [I've complained about Windows Search for years, and Microsoft's latest fix addresses every frustration at once](https://daily.dev/posts/i-ve-complained-about-windows-search-for-years-and-microsoft-s-latest-fix-addresses-every-frustrati-rjvjbuomt) · XDA Developers · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Windows 11 adds toggles to remove Bing results and Store suggestions from Search](https://daily.dev/posts/windows-11-adds-toggles-to-remove-bing-results-and-store-suggestions-from-search-n7fqjm9ek) · The Next Web · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Microsoft plans to fix Windows 11’s unpredictable Start menu search](https://daily.dev/posts/microsoft-plans-to-fix-windows-11-s-unpredictable-start-menu-search-wonzdht6o) · XDA Developers · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Microsoft tests replacing Search with Copilot in Windows 11](https://daily.dev/posts/microsoft-tests-replacing-search-with-copilot-in-windows-11-xnrzmgkct) · The Register · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#microsoft](https://daily.dev/tags/microsoft), [#windows](https://daily.dev/tags/windows) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/improving-windows-search-box-with-less-clutter-and-more-control-xbecpci2b) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Improving Windows Search Box, with less clutter and more control","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/improving-windows-search-box-with-less-clutter-and-more-control-xbecpci2b","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/improving-windows-search-box-with-less-clutter-and-more-control-xbecpci2b"},"datePublished":"2026-07-13T23:56:55.121Z","dateModified":"2026-09-14T08:31:33.957Z","description":"Microsoft is rolling out several improvements to the Windows Search Box for Windows Insiders in the Experimental channel. 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