In Windows 10, Microsoft has done a "trick" to push its Bing search engine a little, so that it can be used more (since almost nobody uses it). Basically, when you press the Windows 10 Start button or the search button and write something, in addition to showing results of files and programs present on your computer as normal, web search results from Bing also appear . For example, by trying to search for Navigaweb on the Start menu or on the Windows 10 search bar, you can open this website.
This type of function in Windows 10 is still used very little, both because it is a bit hidden, and because the accuracy and the amount of results obtained from a search with Bing is absolutely not comparable to the quality of Google, clearly more relevant, more relevant and richer in alternatives (especially in the Italian version).
To this we must add that it also has numerous bugs and at the moment the search for the Start menu (both offline and online) does not work on many Windows 10 PCs, including mine. According to the information that can be found on the internet, the fault of these problems lies with Microsoft, which can modify the search functionality in Windows 10 remotely, without having to release an update to install.
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To do this and remove the search results online from the Start menu or from the Windows 10 bar, proceed as follows:
I don't know why Microsoft has never been able to provide an internal search tool for your computer that works well and is fast. Although, as seen, it is possible to customize the file search in Windows 10, still today, it is preferable to use an external program to search for files on the PC .
Final NOTE: if you want to keep searching for Windows 10, in case of problems and errors or malfunctions, Microsoft has released an application called Indexer Diagnostic which should solve most of the errors.
This type of function in Windows 10 is still used very little, both because it is a bit hidden, and because the accuracy and the amount of results obtained from a search with Bing is absolutely not comparable to the quality of Google, clearly more relevant, more relevant and richer in alternatives (especially in the Italian version).
To this we must add that it also has numerous bugs and at the moment the search for the Start menu (both offline and online) does not work on many Windows 10 PCs, including mine. According to the information that can be found on the internet, the fault of these problems lies with Microsoft, which can modify the search functionality in Windows 10 remotely, without having to release an update to install.
READ ALSO: How to disable Cortana in Windows 10
Turn off web search in Windows 10
Both to solve the temporary problems of the search functioning from the Start menu, and to completely disable the unnecessary and unnecessary online search included in Windows 10 (to let only the normal search for files and programs work), you can disable the results of Bing through a small modification to the registry.To do this and remove the search results online from the Start menu or from the Windows 10 bar, proceed as follows:
- Press the Windows-R keys together to display the Run box.
- Type regedit.exe and press the Enter key to start the registry editor.
- Press YES when the user control authorization window appears.
- Open, from the left side tree or using the search bar at the top, the key: Computer \ HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Search
- Inside the Search folder, look for the line BingSearchEnabled in the list of keys on the right side. If it does not exist, right-click on a white space on the right side of the window, then select New > DWord Value (32 bit) and give it the name BingSearchEnabled .
- Change the value of BingSearchEnabled to 0.
- Then locate the CortanaConsent key and change the value with a double click by putting 0.
- Reboot your PC.
I don't know why Microsoft has never been able to provide an internal search tool for your computer that works well and is fast. Although, as seen, it is possible to customize the file search in Windows 10, still today, it is preferable to use an external program to search for files on the PC .
Final NOTE: if you want to keep searching for Windows 10, in case of problems and errors or malfunctions, Microsoft has released an application called Indexer Diagnostic which should solve most of the errors.
