As you may have noticed, net search results appear when you search using the Start menu search bar on your Windows 10 or 11 laptops . Below are the steps to disable net search results in the Start menu search window.
As you may have seen, the Start Menu Search in Windows 10 displays web search results whenever you type something in the Start Menu search bar.
That's because Windows 10 Home search is based on Microsoft's Bing search engine, which also powers Web Explorer and Microsoft's Edge browser.
While Web strategies are probably useful in some circumstances, they are completely useless when a person is simply trying to search for data, packages, or applications located on the computer's hard drive.
Another reason to disable search in the Windows Start Menu may be to prevent your search phrases with private file names from being sent to Microsoft servers.
Fortunately, it is possible to disable Bing in the Start Menu and prevent your personal searches from being sent to Microsoft servers.
In previous versions of Windows 10 Home, there was an option to disable Cortana in the Start menu and that was enough to disable Bing search in the Windows 10 Home Start menu.
In the current model, the only solution to disable Bing search in the Windows 10 Start menu is to change the corresponding registry data.
Click the Start button and then click the Run button . At the Run command prompt , type regedit and click OK.
In the Registry Editor screen, go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft \Windows\CurrentVersion\Search.
Click the Search button in File and select New > WORD-WORD (32-bit) in the context menu.
Name the newly created DWORD BingSearchEnabled and double-click it.
In the Edit DWORD pop-up window, make sure the topic worth knowing is 0 and click OK.
Next, double-click on CortanaConsent entry.
In the Edit DWORD pop-up window, enter 0 in the Value data field and click OK.
Word: If you don't see CortanaConsent, create this thread following the same steps used to create BingSearchEnabled.
After this Registry change, Windows 10 Home will no longer display web search results and all your searches in the Start menu search bar will likely be limited to your laptop.
If necessary, you can continue to retrieve net search results by opening the Registry Editor and changing the following: BingSearchEnabled and CortanaConsent Info Values to 1.
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