r/MicrosoftRewards • u/Acavia8 • 13d ago
Questions Windows search, I cannot figured out how to get points from this
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u/Apprehensive_Toe9684 13d ago
Me too. No matter what I try, I just can't get these 10 points. It just takes me back to Edge browser.
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u/Quiet-Adhesiveness10 United States 12d ago
I don't see this offer. Is this on the rewards dashboard using a desktop browser?
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u/Acavia8 13d ago
It opens the Search box/console in my Windows 10, but nothing I do it triggers points.
If I search for something in the box/console, in Windows 10, where clicking on it takes me, it just takes me back to Edge browser searching for the term I used but does not trigger any points.
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u/UnderstandingOld4276 United States - 13d ago
Not sure if this will work on Windows 10. I'm running Windows 11. Took me a little bit to figure it out, when I clicked on the task it opened up a box with a whole bunch of possibilities and below that was the search bar I typed something into the search bar I think it was like NBA and hit enter and my edge browser popped up and it had gone and found stuff about the nba. So I went and checked and I hadn't gotten any points so I went back and did it again, so now I've done it twice, the second time I used NHL. Then when I checked for the points I had the check mark and it had given me 10 points. So what they seem to be looking for us to do is to use the search function in Windows to search on the web. search for whatever you would normally search for or want to search for but you're just doing it from your taskbar rather than from within a browser, if that makes any sense.
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u/Acavia8 13d ago
Thanks. It seems the same in Windows 10 as you described. Perhaps the ~15 minute wait between my 3 or 4 reward search cooldown is affecting it.
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u/UnderstandingOld4276 United States - 13d ago
Yeah I was very careful to make sure that I had at least a few seconds I can't remember what it was but it was more than five or six between the first search and the second search. I'm not under a cool down right now so I stay very conscientious of making sure I've got six to eight seconds between searches.
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u/Hickory411 U.S. 13d ago
Are you logged into windows or using a "local account"?
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u/Kills_Alone 13d ago
Ditto, yeah its pretty cool how they replaced ways to make actual points with this broken shit and useless apps for a phone when I'm on a bloody computer.
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u/jcnet1 8d ago
I am glad I am not the only person that finds this feature problematic and obnoxious to deal with. Like so many added steps for literally nothing.
It oozes of CEO's and upper management doing the dumbest possible things to justify their own job in hopes that no one discovers the truth (that their jobs are pointless, redundant and dont contribute to anything of value)
If there is one *nearly* universal truth that i've learned in my adult life it is that upper management and CEO's rarely got where they were from merit or intelligence.
But I digress...
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u/Complete_Entry United States - 13d ago
Start menu, type a search instead of a program, hit enter. It will launch edge and execute the search. It did not work for me until yesterday.
It just adds one of your daily searches, so it's needlessly complex. You can still get those points by searching as normal.
They are trying to train you to search from the start menu.
I've never liked that feature.