Post #619982
2026-03-01 23:35 UTC
Did you know in the start menu if you're using the search box and you know you specifically want a certain category such as apps or settings, that you can do something like category: query? For instance if you want to see settings that match "advanced", you can do "settings: advanced" without the quotes.
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@BTyson@dragonscave.space 2026-03-01 23:45
Be careful though, I found out that there's bugs in both Windows 10 and Windows 11 that can make weird things happen on occasion when opening settings via search. If I, for instance, search update history in the search box and click the option to view my update history, everything shows a count of 0 updates, even though I've been installing updates since September on this machine. Pressing the home button in Settings on my Windows 10 machine did go back to the Settings home page, but then selecting "Update and security" again to get to Windows Update totally crashed Settings. This didn't happen if I navigate directly to that page from within Settings.