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What happens when you press Win, type a query, then press enter, quickly? In Win 10 that opens a Bing search in Edge for me, no matter what settings I try. Very annoying when I type "(Win)chr(enter)" to open Chrome and get a search instead. If I do it slow it will sometimes work.

I haven't tried it on Win 11 because that was what caused me to drop Windows altogether. (Everyone has their straw).

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I have the same issue but even worse: If I do it too fast it works! Somehow it takes longer to find the app than it does to suggest a websearch, so I need to wait 1-2 seconds after typing not to open edge...

Start menu search is unfortunate broken in Windows 11 (even more so than in W10). It needs to do a Web search before returning results, which makes it too slow to be reliably useful in my opinion.

It's easily solved by installing Power Toys and using the search feature from there instead (activated with alt + space, like in Linux & Mac)

I disabled the ability to search the web through the start menu long before they started with the edge shenanigans. As far as I'm concerned that isn't the operating system's job, and the only things I should see when I search there are things actually on my computer.

I do the same thing with Apple's Spotlight.

The last time I checked, you can't change this to use anything but Edge either.

> What happens when you press Win, type a query, then press enter, quickly?

Also on Win 10. I get, in the start menu, "no results for <search term>". I know I turned of web searching when installing, but it's been so long I might have used registry keys[1].

[1]: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/how-to...

I use Windows 10. I'm not sure what settings I applied (I did do quite a few), but I don't get that.

If I do Win+aoeuaoeu+enter, nothing at all happens. It just sits with a search box open showing "No results for aoeuaoeu". I can't actually see any way of getting to a browser search window from there (whether my preferred browser or not). So I must have found some way to disable that behaviour completely. Keep trying?

(FWIW yes that is the way I open my browser: win+fire+enter. Nothing bad happens if I do it too fast.)

I believe you've disabled Cortana or "search the web for result".

A while ago I uninstalled IE from my pc. I'm not sure how, but now when I do what you say nothing happens. It says "search the web" but I guess it can't find IE so it just fails silently. It took me a while to recall that I uninstalled IE in a tantrum in the past so that puzzled me for a while

I launch apps from the Win key all the time, never ending up in Edge. The worst for me is ending up in “Internet Options” when I want to launch IntelliJ.

Try typing something that ends up doing a "search" is what they're suggesting.

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