{"id":16083,"date":"2021-08-28T14:50:03","date_gmt":"2021-08-28T13:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/?p=16083"},"modified":"2021-08-28T14:50:03","modified_gmt":"2021-08-28T13:50:03","slug":"windows-disable-search-the-web-in-start-menu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/16083\/windows-disable-search-the-web-in-start-menu\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows: Disable &#8220;Search the web&#8221; in start menu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you search for something in the Start menu, a query is automatically sent to the Microsoft search engine Bing. How to disable this?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>If you search for something in the Start menu, you will notice that in addition to the results of your own computer, such as apps or documents, search results from the Internet also appear. This is rather mediocre from a data protection point of view, since Microsoft basically always knows what I&#8217;m searching for or typing in the Start menu.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QFDIojENdY4\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>But how can I disable &#8220;search the web&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/search_en_1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"834\" height=\"684\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/search_en_1.png 834w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/search_en_1-300x246.png 300w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/search_en_1-768x630.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 834px) 100vw, 834px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The search can be easily disabled via the registry. First, we start the registry editor.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/search_en_2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"499\" height=\"295\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15676\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/search_en_2.png 499w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/search_en_2-300x177.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now we navigate to the following key:<\/p>\n<pre>\r\nHKEY_CURRENT_USER\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Search\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>We <a href=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/62792\/vba-outlook-create-new-e-mail\/\" title=\"VBA Outlook: Create new e-mail\">create a new<\/a>  DWORD (32-Bit) value.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/search_en_3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"879\" height=\"488\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15677\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/search_en_3.png 879w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/search_en_3-300x167.png 300w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/search_en_3-768x426.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 879px) 100vw, 879px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To this, we give the following name:<\/p>\n<pre>\r\nBingSearchEnabled\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>We can leave the default value at 0:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/search_en_4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"527\" height=\"146\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15678\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/search_en_4.png 527w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/search_en_4-300x83.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 527px) 100vw, 527px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After that the search the web function is no longer in the start menu:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/search_en_5.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"473\" height=\"270\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15679\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/search_en_5.png 473w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/search_en_5-300x171.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 473px) 100vw, 473px\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you search for something in the Start menu, a query is automatically sent to the Microsoft search engine Bing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1555],"tags":[1559,1558],"class_list":["post-16083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software-en","tag-tutorial-en","tag-windows-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}