New Delhi: Microsoft launched Windows 11 on September 5 last year. It’s been almost a year now that Microsoft has been fixing the new Window’s bugs. Windows 11 has made some upgrades from its predecessor Windows 10 to improve the user experience and provide more rich and productive functionality.
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However, no software is perfect. There are still some bugs in Windows 11 that keep bothering the users time and again. One of them is the ‘Search Widget Ghost Box issue’, which blocks the screen from other applications.
What is the ‘Search Widget Ghost Box’ problem?
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This has been reported as a common problem by Windows 11 users. Whenever a user searches for something with the search option at the bottom of the taskbar, and if that fails, he gets stuck on the screen. This is called a ‘ghost box’ which makes everything behind it inaccessible.
Here are the steps to temporarily solve the problem:-
Step 1 – Close any File Explorer windows that are open
Step 2 – Press Control + Shift + Escape key combination to open Task Manager
Step 3 – On the Taskbar tab, scroll down the list of running processes until you find the Windows Explorer process
Step 4 – Select the Windows Explorer process and press the Restart button at the bottom-right corner of the Task Manager window.
Step 5 – That’s all, Ghost Box will be gone.
How to Permanently Fix the “Ghost Box” Problem on Windows 11
Step 1 – Select Taskbar and choose Taskbar Settings
Step 2 – Turn off the Search toggle option
Step 3 – This will make the search widget permanently disappear from the windows 11 taskbar