Hide or Show Search Box or Search Icon on Taskbar in Windows 10

Brink · 09 Aug 2015

It turns out that your taskbar must be on the bottom of your main display to have "Show search box" as well.

gp41 · 09 Aug 2015

By golly miss molly. That fixed it... and so simple. Thank you! Its just going to take some getting used to.

Brink · 09 Aug 2015

Yeah, who would of thought that was why. LOL

Martinvg · 21 Mar 2016

I have just run the Show_Search_box_on_Taskbar.bat and my taskbar has completely disappeared. Please help!! how do I get it back?

Brink · 21 Mar 2016

Hello Martin, and welcome to Ten Forums. :)

It sounds like something has interfered with the .bat file restarting explorer. You can do this below to start explorer again.

1) Open Task Manager (Ctrl+Shift+Esc) in "More details" view.

2) Click on File (menu bar), and click on Run new task.

3) Type explorer, and click on OK.

Martinvg · 21 Mar 2016

Aha, OK thank you. That worked.

Brink · 21 Mar 2016

You're most welcome. :)

kman67 · 18 Jun 2016

Hi, I ran the "Show_Search_Icon_on_Taskbar.bat" file and the screen blanked out. I got the desktop to show up again by restarting the system, but now the taskbar items have white boxes around them, and my Firefox start screen has an all-black background. How do I fix this? Thanks, Karl

Brink · 18 Jun 2016

Hello kman, and welcome to Ten Forums. :)

It sounds like something interfered with the process. See if restarting explorer may sort it for you.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/5...dows-10-a.html

boa999 · 10 Aug 2016

I had only the search icon (magnifying glass). Bat file did enter new keys and set DWORD but no box, just the icon as before. So I guess the question is how to turn the icon into the search box?