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Search boxes also appear in the Settings window, the Edge browser, Mail,

and all the other spots where it’s useful to perform small-time, limited
searches.

Here’s how you might perform the broader search-box search, on the
taskbar:

1. Get your insertion point into the search box. You can click or

tap the box (Figure 3-1, left), or press either of these keystrokes:

opens the Start menu, of course. But it also puts your blinking
cursor into the search box. Best for quick and dirty searches of the

Start menu and stuff whose names you know.

+S (S for Search, get it?) puts your cursor into the search box,
too—but it also opens the new set of Search refinement and

shortcut options shown in Figure 3-1.

Note

The first time you use the search box, Windows displays a panel that informs you of
the kind of information it needs to collect. Click “I agree” to continue—or see
“Establish Privacy Control” to find out more about this data.

This search box offers the icons of your five most often used apps,
as well as a list of recent documents. You can jump into one of

those programs or files with a quick click; Microsoft has realized
that the fastest search is one that requires you to do no typing at all.

At the top of the box, search offers buttons that limit your quest to
apps, documents, email, web pages, or (in the More menu) folders,

music, people, photos, settings, or videos. More on these in a
moment; for now, note that you can click one of these categories
either before or after you type in what you’re looking for.