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Previously Windows 10 allowed users to change their Search settings to prevent web results from appearing in a Start Menu search - in 2020 that all changed and now a registry edit is required to turn it off
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| ; simply copy and paste lines 3 to 7 into notepad and then save and change the filetype to .reg then double click to have it | |
| ; add the lines for you. Otherwise, you will already know how to do it in other ways. If that doesn't fix it, read on.... | |
| Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 | |
| [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Search] | |
| "BingSearchEnabled"=dword:00000000 | |
| "AllowSearchToUseLocation"=dword:00000000 | |
| ; ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
| ; |||||||||||||||||| STOP HERE IF COPY & PASTING ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| | |
| ; ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
| ; Most users will find that the above 2 keys are sufficient, however if you are still experiencing the search function | |
| ; showing web results, please be aware that you must be willing to turn off Cortana as well and then | |
| ; Review or add the below settings to ensure Cortana and web search results are off | |
| ; otherwise you can save save this file as a .reg file and it will automatically make ALL the changes for you, but don't | |
| ; forget to make a backup first. All items that are unique to your system have been commented out | |
| ; but I left them in for spacing/line purposes (to match what you might find in your own file if visually checking, | |
| ; you're welcome) | |
| ; Windows version 2004 AKA build 18362 | |
| [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Search] | |
| "SearchboxTaskbarMode"=dword:00000000 | |
| "CanCortanaBeEnabled"=dword:00000001 | |
| "CortanaConsent"=dword:00000002 | |
| ; optionally, you can change CortanaConsent to "dword:00000000" as well | |
| [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Search] | |
| "CortanaMUID"="MUID=4e02022be6fc41faa74154a93d74a7a8" | |
| ; "InstalledPackagedAppsRevision"="{XXXXXXXX-1XXX-XXXX-AXXX-XXXXXXXXXX}" unique to your system, dont modify (commented out) | |
| ; "InstalledWin32AppsRevision"="{XXXXXXXX-1XXX-XXXX-AXXX-XXXXXXXXXX}" unique to your system, dont modify (commented out) | |
| "ReplaceCortanaCheckRefreshed"=dword:00000001 | |
| "CortanaIsReplaceable"=dword:00000000 | |
| "CortanaIsReplaced"=dword:00000000 | |
| "AnyAboveLockAppsActive"=dword:00000000 | |
| "IsWindowsHelloActive"=dword:00000000 | |
| "IsAssignedAccess"=dword:00000000 | |
| "CortanaCapabilityFlags"=dword:00002200 | |
| "CortanaCapabilities"="PhoneCall,SpeechLanguage" | |
| "CortanaInAmbientMode"=dword:00000000 | |
| "CortanaStateLastRun"=hex:a9,a3,3b,5f,00,00,00,00 | |
| ; "NamespaceSettingsRevision"="{XXXXXXXX-1XXX-XXXX-AXXX-XXXXXXXXXX}" this line is commented out if you are use it as a .reg file | |
| "BackgroundAppGlobalToggle"=dword:00000001 | |
| "IsMicrophoneAvailable"=dword:00000001 | |
| "HasAboveLockTips"=dword:00000001 | |
| "CortanaServiceTarget"="cortana.bing.com" | |
| "CortanaUserAuthority"="" | |
| "CortanaUserId"="" |
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A modified .reg file to disable web results appearing in Windows Start searches. Only the 1st section is needed, the remaining reg keys were included in case a user did not find success and had other settings whereas this would modify those other keys as well in order to ensure it would disable the windows Search.
PLEASE NOTE IT WILL DISABLE CORTANA