Terrorist imagery in win10 search highlights.
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(begins channeling inner grognard)
Or just set it to hidden because there's 0 reason to have a search bar or button on the taskbar. If you want to do a web search, I can 100% guarantee you have a browser window open, and if you want to do a local search just press the windows key and start typing. (As for Microsoft making it so the start menu search does both local and web searches, well the people involved with that should be banned from ever working on anything computer related again, but at least some registry edits can turn it off)
(ends grognard mode)
I think you can stop the start search bar from looking at the web without a reg edit but it’s been a long time since I’ve done it
Fair enough, there may be. I've got a batch file that I just run on a new machine that does it so I haven't had to look for alternate means, but regardless the fact that there isn't just an easily accessible switch with options "search local files only" or "search local files and web" is just terrible design (from a user PoV, from a "M$ harvesting your data point of view it's a great idea)
It’s also their way of inflating bing and edge numbers through frustrating the user with accidental usage.