the Windows 11 Insider Preview build number 25281 has had one attraction reduced. This is the desktop search bar, which has been discussed in the dev channel for a long time, but now apparently will not find its way into the final operating system. User PhantomOcean3 has discovered that the desktop search bar has been completely blown out of the new build. However, this action by Microsoft is not particularly surprising, because many users from the community actually expected that the desktop search bar could be gone.
The reason for this is the fact that the function was initially hidden after the introduction of this Windows 11 feature in Build 25120 and was deactivated again in a build version two months later. Although the code for the feature remained, there were signs that the so-called DesktopSearchBox would not make it into the final version of the operating system. Now this seems to have become a reality, as the search bar for the desktop is no longer present in the new Windows 11 Insider Preview build number 25281.
Hardly any sorrow for the missing search bar on the Windows 11 desktop
Many users criticized the idea from the start, as they weren’t interested in having a search bar in the middle of the desktop. This display could indeed have been annoying in everyday PC use. So the removal of the DesktopSearchBox in the new Windows 11 Insider Preview build number 25281 isn’t too much of a disappointment.
A highlight of the new Insider Preview Build 25281, on the other hand, is the editor tabs. Also new: different designs for the settings. Windows 11 insiders have therefore received some new features for extensive testing.