Bing Desktop is available for Windows 7

@kado897- Did it make a ding or dong? I think it is 4:20!

seavixen32 said:

kado897 said:

I gave it a try but didn't like it. The Bing search bar was hardly unobtrusive.

If you click on the Bing taskbar button the searchbar hides itself there until you want to use it again.

If you right click on the IE taskbar you can also uncheck the Bing toolbar item in the list of things like menu bar, Favorite bar, command bar, etc. there.

Just tried this out only with the wallpaper that has been in use to still end up seeing the Bing search box right in the middle of the first display here.

I think people are finally realizing that Google-litis doesn't work in their best interests in any way! Adbots and other things are apparent!

regardless of the browser used here I always set Bing as the default search engine. The only problem with the Bing desktop however is seen when you are running with more then one monitor and have a separate wallpaper for each one. Here one image would be stretched across both until changing wallpapers again.

Too bad you couldn't see just the search box onscreen without the backgrounds due to this. The two images attached here will show how it looks across both displays as well as having the original UltraMon theme applied with the Bing search box present.

Night Hawk said:

regardless of the browser used here I always set Bing as the default search engine.

Either Bing or Duckduckgo.

If I can avoid anything Google - I will these days.



As for the Bing bar, one annoying aspect is that when placed up the top of the screen, it affects fullscreen apps - like games for example. If you mouse up towards the Bar area - it appears.

But with refinement, little things like that could be alleviated.

Better support for dual screens would be nice to. Even the option to move it a non-primary screen would be handy.

I wouldn't mind a move button seen on the search box. The problem as you see with the first image there is how the background on LCD #2 when using a dual screen setup is scrambled eggs! There's obviously no search box only option to address this type of problem either for those running multiple displays since this is a live Bing page web feed.

It works about the same as you used to see when people applied any particular web page as wallpaper but with constantly changing photos for the background being randomly displayed each day. Unfortunately they didn't think ahead far enough when only taking into account those with laptops or single monitor systems. Otherwise it can be quite decorative rather then being stuck with a boring desktop?

Does anone know how to re-enable it after I disabled it? Can't seem to find out how...

Wow, the only way I can describe this is hideous. Is it really that big of a drag to search via a web browser these days?