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Now I will be the first to admit that I search.  I search on Google.  I search even on Bing. But when I search – I WANT TO SEARCH. So I’ve never quite
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Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher

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Will Fastie, abbodi86, E Pericoloso Sporgersi, Alex5723, TechTango

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What Bing search ?
Windows 10 Pro 22H2 March updates.

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How to Disable Bing Search in Windows 10 – Easy Method | Ubergizmo

Given that it’s the default search in the OS, 10 will have the Chatgpt stuff as well.

Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher

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That link is four years old.

Susan Bradley wrote:

So now we have Bing being added to search in the March updates.. but not just ANY search … it’s the chatgpt search.

March updates did not add “chatgpt Bing search bar to Windows” as proclaimed by @ITguySoCal.

Microsoft opens up an early preview of the new Bing with ChatGPT, and here’s how to sign up.

How to get early access to Bing with ChatGPT
March 16, 2023

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I’ve seen it on a client’s Windows 10.  I think they are annoyingly dribbling this stuff out.

Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher

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My point was that bing search is the default search in the OS unless you take action.  Yes that particular post is 4 years old, but Bing was then and is now the default search.

I have a Bing icon in the corner on my home Edge, I don’t at the office.  It’s very annoying how they now no longer release things to all, but now they dribble.

 

Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher

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Cybertooth, Charlie

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Bing, yes; ChatGPT requires sign-up and sign-on:

If you’re in the Bing preview, all you’ll need to do is install today’s Windows 11 update to access the new search box. To join the new Bing preview sign up on the waitlist.

Introducing a big update to Windows 11 making the everyday easier including bringing the new AI-powered Bing to the taskbar
[By Panos Panay, Chief Product Officer; February 28, 2023]

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Susan Bradley wrote:

Joe here posts about the registry key to disable or hide the search bar. You can find this by opening up the registry and

find: Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Search

Look for SearchboxTaskbarMode and right-click on it and select Modify. Change it to 0

How is messing around in the registry like this better, easier or quicker than three clicks in Settings (same place for Windows 10 and 11) to switch off the taskbar search box?

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You want to automate this change for multiple users and/or machines.

Windows 10 22H2 desktops & laptops on Dell, HP, ASUS; No servers, no domain.

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Those instructions are not automated (open, find, look, click, select, change).

There’s a group policy for multiple users and/or machines.

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No everyone is on a domain these days.  I’m going to do registry keys and intune instructions as well.

Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher

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Hide Search Bar:

On permanent hiatus {with backup and coffee}
offline▸ Win10Pro 2004.19041.572 x64 i3-3220 RAM8GB HDD Firefox83.0b3 WindowsDefender
offline▸ Acer TravelMate P215-52 RAM8GB Win11Pro 22H2.22621.1265 x64 i5-10210U SSD Firefox106.0 MicrosoftDefender
online▸ Win11Pro 22H2.22621.1992 x64 i5-9400 RAM16GB HDD Firefox116.0b3 MicrosoftDefender

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fernlady

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May I ask if you are referring to Windows 11? I could not find the settings after applying the Windows 10 March update. Thanks.

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geekdom

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CdnTom wrote:

May I ask if you are referring to Windows 11?

online▸ Win11Pro 22H2.22621.1413 x64 i5-9400 RAM16GB HDD Firefox112.0b3

On permanent hiatus {with backup and coffee}
offline▸ Win10Pro 2004.19041.572 x64 i3-3220 RAM8GB HDD Firefox83.0b3 WindowsDefender
offline▸ Acer TravelMate P215-52 RAM8GB Win11Pro 22H2.22621.1265 x64 i5-10210U SSD Firefox106.0 MicrosoftDefender
online▸ Win11Pro 22H2.22621.1992 x64 i5-9400 RAM16GB HDD Firefox116.0b3 MicrosoftDefender

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The search settings are different between 10 and 11 (again why registry keys are sometimes nicer as they tend to be 10/11 agnostic)

Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher

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windbg

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Windows 10:
Settings, Personalization, Taskbar, Search, Hidden
To Hide or Show Search Box or Search Icon on Taskbar in Taskbar Settings

Windows 11:
Settings, Personalization, Taskbar, Search, Hide
Add or Remove Search Button on Taskbar for Current User in Settings

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Susan Bradley wrote:

I will be the first to admit that I search.

I use DuckDuckGo for online search.  I don’t use Windows Search, so I disable it in Services, which also makes the Search Box disappear.

File Explorer Search still works, and its search is confined to the drive/folder that is displayed in the right pane.  It doesn’t get in the way, but I don’t use it, either, although I have tried it just to see the results, and it does indeed work.

I don’t use Google or Bing.  I don’t want my searching tracked for any reason.

Always create a fresh drive image before making system changes/Windows updates; you may need to start over!

We all have our own reasons for doing the things that we do with our systems; we don't need anyone's approval, and we don't all have to do the same things.

We were all once "Average Users".

Computer Specs

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Cybertooth, satrow

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In my humble opinion (sometimes not so humble), when I want to search in MY computer, NOT the web, nothing beats Swift Search as recommended by Deanna McElveen (OlderGeeks.com).

1 Desktop Win 11
1 Laptop Win 10
Both tweaked to look, behave and feel like Windows 95
(except for the marine blue desktop, rgb(0, 3, 98)

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To hide search bar or search button:

Right click on taskbar, go to Search, and select Hidden.

 

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Remember one thing  before you use the search with ChatGPT   you have to first research the man who invented it  and his background .  You can bet the algorithms will slant to his opinions and censor opposing opinions.

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Cybertooth

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I can’t find a single name. Can you?

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I would think that the Wikipedia page for OpenAI and it’s CEO Sam Altman would be a good starting point for learning more about ChatGPT.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Altman

 

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Cybertooth

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There isn’t “one inventor”

The organization was founded in San Francisco in 2015 by Sam Altman, Reid Hoffman, Jessica Livingston, Elon Musk, Ilya Sutskever, Peter Thiel, Olivier Grabias and others,^[8][1][9] who collectively pledged US$1 billion. Musk resigned from the board in 2018 but remained a donor. Microsoft provided OpenAI LP with a $1 billion investment in 2019 and a second multi-year investment in January 2023, reported to be $10 billion.^[10]

Key employees:

• CEO and co-founder:^[45] Sam Altman, former president of the startup accelerator Y Combinator
• President and co-founder:^[46] Greg Brockman, former CTO, 3rd employee of Stripe^[47]
• Chief Scientist and co-founder: Ilya Sutskever, a former Google expert on machine learning^[47]
• Chief Technology Officer:^[46] Mira Murati, previously at Leap Motion and Tesla, Inc.
• Chief Operating Officer:^[46] Brad Lightcap, previously at Y Combinator and JPMorgan Chase

Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher

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Susan Bradley wrote:

My point was that bing search is the default search in the OS unless you take action.

Asking again, what Bing search ? I don’t see it.

I do have Bing icon on the menu of Edge browser, but I don’t use Edge and it is not as a result of March updates.

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Welcome to why are there differences in systems.

You’ve opted out earlier.

You are in a region where it’s blocked.

Default Windows 10 includes web searching in the search box in Windows 10.

Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher

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Alex5723

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Whatever the reason I’m glad not to have it.

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Win 10 Pro 22H2:

I have Windows indexing disabled to avoid the overhead, search service disabled, search box disabled on the task bar, cloud content search turned off in settings and search history turned off in settings. My use case doesn’t include “cloud” storage of import.

For online search, I use a browser. Duck-Duck-Go as a search engine with Google as a seldom used alternative.

For indexing and searching my local drives I use “Everything” – a very fast and low overhead program. Granted, it doesn’t index contents within files but it serves my needs. My storage needs are for family photos, videos, games, music, e-books and other reading or reference material, virtual machines, iso files of OS’s I fiddle with, drive images of my boot drive(s), plus synchronized file/folder duplicates of non-imaged drives – i.e. backups of my backups for when a drive fails. I keep the duplicate drives off-line except when updating them.

I would likely change things if I were still in a corporate position with the attendant demands. As for AI chatbots, I’ll just watch their development for now.

Win10 Pro x64 22H2, Win10 Home 22H2, Linux Mint + a cat with 'tortitude'.

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I must respectfully disagree with my boss on this one, but just a little bit.

I don’t have the search box enabled in the toolbar and never have. Instead, I just press the Win Key and start typing. If I find what I’m looking for on my PC, great. If not, I examine Web results, shown on the right. And if I still don’t see anything, then I’ll click See Web results.

It’s pretty fast.

The other day I was looking for an old piece of correspondence. I remembered the general topic but not where I’d put it. As fast as I could type the topic, I had a link to the file.

I’m sure I’d like Spotlight if I was using a Mac.

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Me too. If I’m not in a browser, I just press WIN and start typing. I don’t have to worry about clicking in the search box.

--Joe

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