Is "Disable modern search bar" working?

[chip33]

Am I missing something here or is this not working, I assume it should be replaced with the "classic search box" as discussed here?

Toggling "Disable modern search bar" in Settings has no visible effect for me even after a restart of file explorer or a system reboot.

HKCU\Software\Classes\CLSID\{1d64637d-31e9-4b06-9124-e83fb178ac6e}

is modified correctly but with modern search bar enabled or disabled my File Explorer search bar always looks like this:

Tested on latest pre-release ep 22000.434.41.6_69707a3 and on my regular win 11 installation and a cleaner one both current at 22000.434.

[valinet]

I keep it disabled but yeah, for me it works. I am on the latest pre-release (it doesn't matter anyway) and latest stable Windows 11 build, 22000.434.

[chip33]

yes, big job I imagine.

[valinet]

On the surface, not looking that big, but in reality, everything computer releated takes insane amounts of time to do. And yeah, it is actually kind of big...

[chip33]

Yeah, I know, even the low level powershell and vbs scripts I do take me ages to get right. Very satisfying once you get them working though.

[chip33]

Here are some tweaks to add context menus to quickly Search Offline with Everything for a selected file or folder name or clipboard contents or search for anything within the open directory by clicking on directory background.
And to Search Online with chrome beta (mod it for any browser) for the same selected items.

EverythingTweaks.zip

Pretty handy for me.
I have renamed the .exe files to encourage anyone to read the included ahk , etc files and compile them into their own exes to be sure there is no malicious code in there.

[chip33]

edit: tidied up the files in the zip.

[chip33]

The solution to the Modern search bar always being disabled was due to just one registry setting as referenced here.

The only value I needed to change was the User Account Control setting (which also disables Modern search bar).

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]
"EnableLUA"=dword:00000000

to
"EnableLUA"=dword:00000001

which enables it after a reboot.

I changed just this setting back and forth a few times and rebooted just to confirm this as the solution.

[valinet]

Yeah, I mean, EnableLUA is known to have side effects. This turns out to be one of them. Leave that to the default setting.

[chip33]

Yes, it was an interesting solution.