Windows 11 Will Soon Let You Disable Bing Search With A Single Toggle
Windows Search has been a sore spot for users going on years, and the frustration is easy to explain. At some point, Microsoft decided that searching for a local app or a buried folder was also a great opportunity to serve up Bing suggestions and MSN news links. Spoiler alert: users disagreed. Users just wanted to find their stuff without having Bixby, or Copilot for that matter, shoved down their throats.
Microsoft appears to finally be getting the message. At a Windows Insider meetup in San Francisco earlier this month, the development team previewed a sweeping cleanup of Windows 11 Search, with the headline feature being a simple, single toggle to shut off web integration entirely.
Right now, the only real way to strip Bing results from taskbar search is to dig into the Windows Registry at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows and manually push policies through. It works, but it's a ridiculous...
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