• Today’s edition of things that annoy me

    Posted on April 27, 2022 at 14:31 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

    Today’s edition of things that annoy me in Microsoftland:

    1. Whom did you get your feedback from?

    Peter Deegan writes on Microsoft’s latest huh move. In a recent post to their alerts, they indicate that they are going to move people from the semi-annual enterprise channel to the monthly channel because people in the monthly channel “Customers on a monthly feature update cadence, such as those on Monthly Enterprise Channel, have reported higher satisfaction than those receiving semi-annual feature updates.”  I don’t know about you but I hardly ever click on Office smiley face feedback so exactly whom did you speak to?  Note this does not impact consumer 365 subscribers, just business subscribers.

    2. The dribble changes

    Microsoft announces changes in their platform but then doesn’t push things out right away. So weeks go by and suddenly things change for some – but not all – of your computers and you have to figure out what change occurred. If you suddenly see your search results change, remember I wrote about this a bit back.

    Right-click the Windows taskbar, select Search from the popup menu, and then click Show search highlights.

    I prefer the second option, setting a Registry key because options set like this in the Registry tend to stick — further updates to this “feature” should not turn them back on. To block the external content, add the key Windows Search, add another dword key called EnableDynamicContentInWSB, and set it to 0. This is represented by the following:

    • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\EnableDynamicContentInWSB=0

    To make it easier for you, I’ve coded up an easily installable registry key to place the block in your system. To install the block, merely click here and then click on Open file in your browser’s download dialog. Click to run the program, and then click yes to install the registry key.

    Bottom line, every day there’s something new to be aware of.  We try to keep you informed!

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