This change follows several other updates that give users more control over how they use Windows 11, including the ...

which powers the file search engine built into Windows that the Start Menu search box, Windows Explorer, and even the Libraries feature run on. To stop the indexing of all files, you can disable ...

including Start Menu, Taskbar search box, etc., in the center. However, if you do not like it, you can move the Start Menu to the left side – like Windows 10. For that, do the following ...

Applications like File Explorer and the Start menu search panel 'talk' to the new data store, thus their "Pin to Start" options try to pin tiles to the Windows 11 Start menu, not the Windows 10 one.