How to disable Bing web search results in Windows 10 Start Menu

Windows 10 has separated Cortana and Windows Search. The search looks a lot better, but it still shows Bing web search results in the results. Usually when using Windows 10 computers, many don’t like this. In this post, we will share how easily you can disable Bing web search results in Windows 10 Start Menu.

Before you read on, you should know that our portable freeware Ultimate Windows Tweaker lets you disable Bing web search results with a click.

UPDATE: Windows 10 v2004 and later may have to follow this procedure to disable Bing Search in Windows 10 Start Menu.

Disable Bing web search results in Windows 10 Start Menu

The method which we will use below contains steps that explain to you how to modify the Registry. Make sure to create a restore point before going ahead.

Earlier, changing settings on Cortana and modifying group policy used to work correctly. However, since Cortana is separate from Windows Search, you cannot use them anymore. Instead, you will need to change the registry settings to disable the web search result from appearing.

Open Registry Editor by pressing Windows + R in combination, typing ‘regedit’ in the ‘Run’ dialogue box and hitting ‘Enter’.

Navigate to the following path:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Search

Change the value of these DWORD keys to 0

• • AllowSearchToUseLocation
  • BingSearchEnabled
  • CortanaConsent

The chances are that you will not see the BingSearchEnabled or AllowSearchToUseLocation DWORD keys. It did not exist in my registry. So I created it.

• Right-click on the right pane when you are in the Search folder.
• Click on New > DWORD 32-bit
• Name the key as BingSearchEnabled / AllowSearchToUseLocation
  
• Make sure its value is 0 (zero).

Exit the Registry Editor, and click on the search button on the taskbar. You should not see the Web section here or when you type. Usually restart is not required, but you can choose to do so if the change doesn’t reflect.

This will disable Cortana as well. So if you have plans to use it, then there is no other way around. I have tried changing settings one by one, but it doesn’t work. They both should have the same value.

Group Policy settings

It is interesting to note that related Group Policy configurations are also available. The settings are:

• Don’t search the web or display web results
• Do not allow web search

Hope this helps.