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Raphire / Win11Debloat

A simple, easy to use PowerShell script to remove pre-installed apps from Windows, disable telemetry, remove Bing from Windows search as well as perform various other changes to declutter and improve your Windows experience. This script works for both Windows 10 and Windows 11.
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Disable Web Search in Start Menu #53

Closed vvildcard closed 6 months ago

vvildcard commented 6 months ago

The following commands will disable Internet search results in the Start Menu, making it perform much better and avoids data leak and telemetry issues related to sending personal searches to Bing.

User-only option: Set-ItemProperty -Path "HKCU:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Search" -Name "BingSearchEnabled" -Value 0 -Type DWord

Machine-wide option: Set-ItemProperty -Path "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search" -Name "ConnectedSearchUseWeb" -Value 0 -Type DWord

Ref: https://admx.help/?Category=Windows_10_2016&Policy=FullArmor.Policies.3B9EA2B5_A1D1_4CD5_9EDE_75B22990BC21::DoNotUseWebResults

Raphire commented 6 months ago

Heya,

Win11Debloat actually already has an option to disable bing web results in the start menu search. It's a part of the default suite of settings.

vvildcard commented 6 months ago

Thanks for the quick response! I'm guessing you're referring to DisableSearchBoxSuggestions... If I'm reading it right, it is a lot more broad than the one I suggested and ultimately results in the Web Search feature being disabled, as well. I suppose you could work out a more granular approach, but the current solution is probably what most people want/expect.

Ref: https://admx.help/?Category=Windows_10_2016&Policy=Microsoft.Policies.WindowsExplorer::DisableSearchBoxSuggestions