If you enable dark or light themes in Windows 10, the new search bar follows the same theme. PS: This new Search bar UI respects system theme and colorization. It just opens in form of a floating toolbar with a huge search box to type the search query.įollowing screenshot shows the new floating immersive search bar UI in Windows 10: The new search bar is floating and doesn’t contain any titlebar and caption buttons (minimize, maximize, close). When you click on the search icon, it launches the new immersive search bar in the center of your computer screen. If you right-click on Taskbar, you’ll notice that “Search” option only has 2 options to select: Hidden and Show search icon.

PS: The new search bar UI doesn’t support full text box on Taskbar. Once you activate this new search UI in Windows 10, the search box on Taskbar is replaced by a small search icon as shown in following screenshot: By default, the new search UI is disabled or hidden. You can also access the search box using WIN+S hotkey or by launching Start Menu and directly type search term.ĭid you know newer Windows 10 versions come with a hidden secret immersive UI for the search box? You need to manually activate and enable it for use. When you click on the search box, you can type your search term and Windows 10 will show search results in the search box fly-out. Today in this tutorial, we are going to share a registry tweak to activate and enable a hidden secret Search bar UI in Windows 10 operating system as shown in following screenshot:īy default, Windows 10 shows a Search box on Taskbar which can be removed or set to an icon only using Taskbar context menu (right-click menu) as mentioned here.

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