In Windows 10 Start Menu search is a basic and essential feature which allows users to find anything on your computers like documents, Picture, videos, system files, apps, emails, and settings very quickly. This built-in search tool is located near the Cortana, at bottom left corner, you can open this search by clicking on the windows start menu, or directly press Windows + S shortcut key. Recently Microsoft integrated Bing Search to the windows search so that it’s actually picking up results from both your computer and Bing. Also, you can quickly access any webpage from the windows search. Microsoft added a lot of advanced features to make Bing search efficient. You can get quick results for any keyword from the web by typing web: Keyword, for example, if you want to check the weather, just type web: weather this will eliminate the search from your computer and show only the results from the web. Also, you can get quick answers from the web, like weather, stock prices, currency conversion, and much more. You can see a preview of any website from the windows search itself. You can search anything from the windows search, based on the keyword windows search will show you the result, if the search is adult related then Safe search will either block or allow the content based on the SafeSearch settings. In this article, we are going to see how to disable Bing Search from Windows 10 Start Menu search using different methods.
Disable Bing Search from Windows 10 Start Menu:
Using Registry Editor:
Note: Modifying the Registry is risky, and it causes irreversible damage to your OS Installation Follow the steps correctly. Friendly advice Before Modifying Registry Creating Restore Point is recommended.
Open Run Command by pressing Windows + R and type Regedit and hit enter this will open the registry editor.
Now Navigate to the following path
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Search
From the Left-hand site click on the Search Registry Key, Now from the Right-hand side search for below mentioned DWORDS.
- AllowSearchToUseLocation
- BingSearchEnabled
- CortanaConsent
If you are not able to find those DWORDs you have to create it. Right-click on the right pane. Choose New > DWORD 32-bit Name the Key as following
- AllowSearchToUseLocation
- BingSearchEnabled
Double click on the DWORDs and set the value to 0 for all three.
Click on Ok and restart the machine to make it effective.
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