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Turn off Bing in your start menu
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February 26, 2021 at 2:54 pm #2346499
Susan Bradley
ManagerWas reading twitter posts this morning with someone complaining that they block outbound Bing searches on their network but that had a nasty side effe
[See the full post at: Turn off Bing in your start menu]Susan Bradley Patch Lady
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February 26, 2021 at 3:08 pm #2346502
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February 26, 2021 at 3:31 pm #2346512
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February 26, 2021 at 3:47 pm #2346515
John
AskWoody Plus….or just use Winaero Tweaker “Disable Web Search” setting, which has been there for quite a while.
Windows 10 2004, 20H2 and above have a modified tweak – it works as I’m on 20H2 and do not get web searches.
Dell Inspiron 7580 i7 16GB Win 10 pro 20H2
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February 26, 2021 at 4:49 pm #2346513
Noel Carboni
AskWoody_MVPI block Bing at multiple levels, including DNS resolutions for anything.bing.anything, and have done so for a long time. Haven’t seen any stalls I don’t think. But then I don’t use the Windows Start panel either. I prefer hierarchy, and for that Open Shell still works just fine. Oh, and I disable Cortana as well.
Seems to me Windows kind of needs a “don’t run anything invented less than 10 years ago” setting for us grumpy old codgers, though I admit I’m forced to use services that rely on newer features because not everyone shares my disdain for immature recent developments.
-Noel
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February 27, 2021 at 7:46 am #2346616
anonymous
Guestdisdain for immature recent developments.
that could also apply here, there and everywhere these days. We reverted back to 8.1 on a few key seats given the slower speed by comparison a couple of years back. The auditors/IT crew were not amused but hey, no moans from them since as we pay them.
Digital time travel has it’s advantages on a productivity level
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February 26, 2021 at 6:14 pm #2346519
EyesOnWindows
AskWoody LoungerSee also Windows 10: Disable Bing in the search.
Posted on 2020-10-05 by guenniSo if you are doing this on Windows 10 Professional edition you can also do this via the instructions given there (repeated here):
Customization via group policy
In Windows 10 Pro and Enterprise the group policy editor gpedit.msc is available for customization. Please follow the steps below.
- Launch the group policy editor gpedit.msc via Run as administrator.
- In the Group Policy Editor, navigate to the following branch:
User configuration -> Administrative templates -> Windows components -> File Explorer - Select the group policy entry Turn off display of recent search entries in the File Explorer search box by double-clicking on it and enable it in the dialog box that appears.
You can then close the Group Policy Editor and restart Windows 10. Then the customization should also be active.
HP Compaq 6000 Pro SFF PC / Windows 10 Pro / 20H2
Intel®Core™2 “Wolfdale” E8400 3.0 GHz / 8.00 GB-
February 26, 2021 at 8:01 pm #2346537
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February 26, 2021 at 8:02 pm #2346555
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February 26, 2021 at 9:22 pm #2346580
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February 26, 2021 at 6:14 pm #2346520
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February 27, 2021 at 7:17 pm #2346684
SupremeLaW
AskWoody Lounger> People still use Bing?
One of the ways to prove active censorship and bias in the current Google search engine is to compare BING and Google results from a search limited to a given domain e.g.:
Google site:[domain.name.here] Starlink performance in rural areas
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BING site:[domain.name.here] Starlink performance in rural areasDepending on how “politically incorrect” the search results could be,
Google has been giving rank preferences to narratives that are “officially” sanctioned,
such as known side effects of certain FDA-approved drugs and vaccines.A notorious example is this document available from http://www.fda.gov:
https://www.fda.gov/media/143557/download (see .pdf Page 17 !)
For reasons such as the latter, BING results are useful to compare with demonstrably biased results produced by the same Google searches.
When we were deeply involved in legal research — before I retired — we frequently recommended that clients make a habit of doing the identical search using different search engines.
With so many different search engines available now, comparisons of results from the same query can be quite educational and entertaining too.
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February 27, 2021 at 7:17 pm #2346685
SupremeLaW
AskWoody LoungerGoogle site:fda.gov “Working list of possible adverse event outcomes”
finds 1 result todayBING site:fda.gov “Working list of possible adverse event outcomes”
finds 4,070 results today1 user thanked author for this post.
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February 26, 2021 at 8:08 pm #2346558
Bob99
AskWoody PlusOn 20H2 build 746 Pro x64, and the registry key(s) mentioned in the articles on HowToGeek and on Born’s site don’t exist in my copy of Win 10! Hmmph, don’t know just what to think.
Yep, I even double checked. The “Explorer” key is missing, I only have the HKCU\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\CloudContent, CurrentVersion and DataCollection keys listed.
I wonder if it might have something to do with a setting (or settings) I may have enabled/disabled in Group Policy?
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February 26, 2021 at 8:49 pm #2346568
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AskWoody Loungergpedit.msc creates the Explorer key and the DisableSearchBoxSuggestions dword value under it when you choose the Enable setting and then Apply it. If you Apply the Not Configured setting both will be removed again. Note that you need to refresh the registry editor (F5 key) if it is running when you apply the setting to see the change. I’m running Windows 10 version 20H2 (OS Build 19042.804).
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February 26, 2021 at 10:31 pm #2346583
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February 26, 2021 at 8:43 pm #2346567
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February 27, 2021 at 12:05 am #2346571
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February 27, 2021 at 12:50 am #2346602
E Pericoloso Sporgersi
AskWoody Plusjust use Winaero Tweaker “Disable Web Search” setting
I tried (and trusted) Winaero Tweaker’s (version 0.19.1.0) tweak.
This appears to be the easiest way by far. WT inserted the necessary keys in the right places, without me opening nor editing the registry.
Afterwards regedit gracefully confirmed WT’s changes.
But I still have an optional button “Search the Internet“, though that starts DuckDuckGo’s search engine, totally disdaining Bing.
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February 27, 2021 at 3:28 am #2346611
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February 27, 2021 at 7:45 am #2346615
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February 27, 2021 at 4:57 am #2346618
Alex5723
AskWoody PlusDon’t this entry on my system Win10 pro -2004
I have this entry on my 20H2 Pro.
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February 27, 2021 at 6:22 am #2346624
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February 27, 2021 at 6:24 am #2346625
TJ
AskWoody Plus( @ AskWoody Crew: I tried twice to ‘Reply’ on post #2346618 but that was not saved. )
@Alex5723, that workes on my v2004 Pro too. It make sure the annoying Quick Search suggestions are also disabled:Disable Web Search in Taskbar in Windows 10 Version 2004 with Group Policy
1. Open the Local Group Policy editor app, or launch it for all users except Administrator, or for a specif user.
2. Navigate to User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > File Explorer on the left.
3. On the right, find the policy setting Turn off display of recent search entries in the File Explorer search box.
4. Double-click on it and set the policy to Enabled. You are done.Source https://winaero.com/disable-web-search-in-taskbar-in-windows-10-version-2004/
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