Latest Windows 11 Preview Build Adds Search Box to Taskbar

One of the worst aspects of Windows 11 is how it replaces Windows 10’s full-featured search box with a search button that forces you to type your search query into a pop-up menu. Getting you to do your search in another window is irritating, annoying, and reminds me of the Windows 8 experience where you had to leave the desktop screen to view the start menu or search bar.

Finally, more than a year after the launch of Windows 11, Microsoft is in the process of bringing the search box back to the taskbar where it belongs. The company has been experimenting with a search box in the system tray in dev and beta builds since September, but today it has come out with the latest Release Preview build, which has build number 22621.1343.

Enabled by default, the new search box will show the text from your search query as you type it while displaying the results in the pop-up menu. You can then click on the result you want to start. For example, when I searched for “Solitaire,” the menu showed me the icon for “Solitaire Collection,” and it also showed me the text for “Collection” as a suggestion in the search box itself.

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When I searched for content that didn’t have a match on the computer itself, I got results from the web. For example, when I typed “McDonald’s” in the search box, I got a list of local restaurants in that franchise. This is typical Windows search behavior, but it’s nice to have the query text appear right on the taskbar.

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