[fixmdude]

I like the larger screen size for visibility but I don't like the Search button so close to the edge. The pad of my thumb hits the Search button in the bottom right corner every time I reach for something on the screen. Every other thing I reach for has to be followed with a Back button to exit Search, and then a second attempt. Is there any way to disable the Search button? I can open Explorer or go to a soft Google app button to search when needed. Thanks.

[Ammar Alhebshi]

I feel that it is the most useless button ever. It pisses me off too because I keep hitting it accidentally all the time.

[edjr07]

No way to do it...

[tehkei]

The function of those buttons are locked. I wish i could disable the buttons back light and the search button. I keep hitting it too.

[DaveGx]

People have been asking to have some control over them since WP7. Still nothing. Im guessing they just dont intend to change it, for whatever silly reason. It cant be particularly hard for them to do, so I have to think its because they just dont want to. Just like Theme colors. How hard would it have been to let us create any color? It wouldve been simple, yet they didnt do that either. Do they not have enough people working on WP OS or they just choose not to do certain things and keep us in the dark on it...

[WPSteve]

It's a corporation... What can you expect? lol

[Joe920]

Boy would I like that. Keep hitting it by accident as well, especially with right-hand use trying to reach over to the back button. It's the price you pay for a huge screen I guess.

[lordofthereef]

The function of those buttons are locked. I wish i could disable the buttons back light and the search button. I keep hitting it too.

This. I can;t say how utterly useless the backlight is when you are trying to do something like watch a video, especially at night. We have this gorgeous screen with ugly white buttons searing out our corneas while consuming media. It really does take away from the enjoyability. A LOT!

[akiman911]

placing a 1/4'' x 1/4'' piece of electrical tape over the button solved all my problems.

[VictorOnrust]

Apparently the HTC 8S has even more sensitive buttons because tape wouldn't help. I cut out a strip of the lid of an ice-box and made two dents in it for the home and the back-button and glued it on the phone. BTW I think M$ made this button to pump up the "use" of Bing.

[heijenoort]

I'd like a search functionality Windows 8 style...

[Satish Nair]

So very true! Absolute no placement for a browser search button. Very very annoying. Esp since, my push notifications dont seem to work. So whenever, i touch this search button accidently, the app on screen gets disconnected, and has to reconnect when I close the search screen.