Windows 10 has Bing active in the Windows Start menu. If you want the searches you do on your computer to return only the results of keywords, you must remove or disable Bing in the Windows 10 start menu .
Keep in mind that if you deactivate Bing it is modifying the search logs on your computer, and it is one of the most sensitive elements of your operating system. But don’t worry, all the changes you make in this regard are reversible, so you can modify this as many times as necessary.
How to Remove or Disable Bing in Windows 10 Start Menu
How to disable Bing from the registry editor
One way to do it is from the Registry Editor. To do this you must start by pressing on the Windows start menu, from the keyboard or by clicking with the mouse on the Windows icon on the taskbar.
Type the command ” Regedit .” Then click on Registry Editor. A box will open with a legend. You must grant the administrator permissions to the application. To do this, click yes when it asks “Allow this application to make changes to the device?”
Once you have confirmed to continue, a window with the application will open. You must position yourself on the search bar at the top of the screen and type the following command: ” HKEYCURRENTUSER \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Search” .
On the left of the screen you can see a list of folders. Scroll down until you find a folder named ” Search ” or ” Search, ” depending on how your computer is configured.
Right click on the folder to see the options menu. Select “New> DWORD (32-bit)” . With this you will be creating a new entry. In the field where you have to write the name of the value you must write the command “HKEYCURRENTUSER \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Search”.
In the next field, “write value information” below, write “0” (zero). Finally click on ” OK ” to save the changes.
In order to apply the changes, you must restart your computer. With this, Bing will be disabled from the start menu.
If you want to re-enable Bing in the future, change the values in the fields in the box, writing “ CortanaConsent and BingSearchEnabled” in the name of the entry and “ 1 (one) ” in “value information”.
If you disable the Bing search engine you can use another one like Microsoft Edge Chromium
How to disable Bing integration with Cortana quickly and easily
Fortunately, it is a very simple process to disable Bing. To begin, click on the start icon of your computer, or press the Windows key to display the options menu.
If you disable the Bing search engine, you can use and configure Cortana with the Microsoft Edge browser
Search for “Cortana & Search settings” by browsing through the list of options or type it in the search bar to access the Windows 10 Settings panel. This will display a text box that will look different depending on whether you have Cortana active or not.
As we mentioned in previous paragraphs, to disable Bing you must disable Cortana, so we must make sure that the switch we have in this box is set to ” Off “, if it is on, just click on it to deactivate it.
Keep in mind that this option is not available within the territory of Mexico, since, if you are from this area or your computer is configured as Mexico, you will have to skip this step. And it is that they still do not have Cortana.
When you disable Cortana the box will change and now you can modify the switch with the legend ” Search online and include results from the network.” You must disable this option as well, so that the switch is set to ” Off”.
In this way you will have removed the Bing from the Windows 10 start menu. If you pay attention, the text box changed the following items again. The option “Any search you do will only be done on your PC” has been changed to “Search my stuff.”
If you also want to disable the search option in the taskbar, just click with the right mouse button and choose the option to ” hide ” it.
As you can see, it is very easy to enable and disable Bing from the start menu of your Windows 10 computer. If you have questions about this tutorial, leave it in the comments.
