Remove Graphics - Search Taskbar

Question

How do you remove these insipid graphics from the Search Taskbar? I see no way to remove them in Taskbar or Toolbar settings.

Answer 1

Hi Doug,

I am Dave, I will help you with this.

Right click an empty spot on the Taskbar, select Search and turn off 'Search Highlights' that will remove the graphics for you

Answer 2

Fall from grace.

I've supported MSFT since the beginning, with pride. Spent 6 years on campus helping make Exchange, SQL Server and the Base OS; Windows, stable, mature computing environments that would stand up to real-world work loads. Spent a few years getting Azure up to speed to handle real-world network loads for big data.

But... forcing customers into Edge, Bing, OneDrive (so far as to break OneNote without it).

Locking customers out of read/write access to our literally billions of documents and collateral created with MSFT Office, unless we pay monthly or annual ransom.

Transitioning toward forcing customers to LOGIN with a MSFT account ANYTIME they use their private and "PERSONAL" computer.

When the childish graphics appeared the search bar it was assumed 100% that it was a hack. No serious, mature corporation would make a decision like that.

Is MSFT shipping a free "My Little Pony" with each purchase now?

Acts like these cause serious concerns if they are still the once trustworthy partner that can be relied on to protect vital corporate assets. It appears the grown-ups are gone and MSFT has transitioned to a dumbed-down data gathering operation focused on shoppers.

Sadly this has compelled a transition to Fedora for the desktop, CentOS/Redhat for the servers and AWS for the cloud.

Answer 3

Thank you! Worked. Kindly inform Product Management to reduce the bloatware.

Answer 4

Hi Doug, glad to help!

Community is just a user to user forum, we have no way to contact product management, the best option is to open the Feedback Hub (Windows Key + F) and please provide your feedback there, that is where the developers will see that and it will help the user experience.