I am setting up a new Windows 10 Pro laptop – version 21H2 build 19044-2006 – have a question about turning off any web-related search suggestions in the search box/window. I thought I had turned everything off in Group Policy, no Cortana, cloud content turned off – but I still am seeing suggestions for web searches when I use that search box to search my computer.
I don’t want to see that list of web suggestions, nor the Quick Searches like Weather, Top News etc on the main search box. I just want it to show me searches related data on my computer.
I am wondering if these instructions from an earlier discussion, 2425853 will work?
It requires the addition of a registry key.
Copy the following without any extra lines or spaces into into a Notepad blank document. Name it NoWebSearchTaskbar.reg (be sure to save as All files and include the .reg in the name).
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USERSOFTWAREPoliciesMicrosoftWindowsExplorer]
“DisableSearchBoxSuggestions”=dword:00000001
Right click this NoWebSearchTaskbar.reg file and select Merge. OK the UAC box and all the warnings to add the key.
A reboot is required.
No web results in the Taskbar Search.
Or – is there something else that I need to try?
Thanks!