How do I remove trending searches?

Hi,

This did not work.

I have tried turning other settings on and off as well and it did not work either.

Does anyone know of any other solutions?

Thanks

**** yeah Derek-Wade!

Answering to your first reply here, just to reassure you that the regedit hack worked well for me here (Win10 Pro).

I'm not a gamer, I just want a computer that helps me work for personal and business use, not to tell me how I should think or for it to trawl through my data screwing it up with random feeds and suppositions, making albums of my decades of client and personal data, not showing me things that need showing, not honing things down to whatever is the latest revenue busting algorithm and not creating paths for data storing when I know where I want to store that stuff (MyXxxx folders etc). Stop hiding file extensions by default, stop adding s*** without telling me and ALWAYS allow an option to go back to how things used to be before it was broken by the latest fad is in aspirational wannabee social apple-like whatever coding.

MS, FFS, turn off the bots or cancel the automatons that fail to actually answer real questions with sensible answers and just offer all these crazy new things as opt-in extras and don't force them by default without any form of easy opt-out options (only currently available if someone finds some crazy regedit hack to stop all this craziness) - it's not rocket science, it's code UX/UI science based on decades of user interactions (business and personal).

I miss the good old days, File>Print, File>Save, etc, was about as complex as it needed to be, all on one simple set of menus, now we get busted and thrown out of context all over the place, ribbon menus this and mobile-obscure-hiddenness that. God forbid when AI starts making the decisions for them and us (if not already too late!).

Hi,

The links you sent relate to the trending section in Microsoft edge, while I am trying to remove the trending section in the search bar in windows.

Thanks

Good day Safes! I am glad to be able to provide assistance to you today. Kindly check and try the below and see if this will achieve what you are looking for.

• Right click the search bar
• Scroll up to the nested menu under Search
• Untick the option Show Search Highlights and then check it again

You can also check out the link below for reference by Sumit an MS MVP.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/for...

Regards,

Paul R.

Safes;

Greg's advice is junk and RC777 has been very helpful, but the specific registry entry he recommended didn't work for me. I did, however, find another registry entry that DID work.

I'm sure Greg's ego won't let him leave my critical posts up, so it's probably a good idea to copypasta this into a note app for future reference. (I suggest using Google Keep, Evernote, or anything that isn't made by Microsoft.)

I found the answer here: https://winaero.com/disable-web-search-in-windows-10-taskbar/

1. open registry editor (type regedit on the search box then hit enter)
2. navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows
3. create "Explorer" under "Windows" (right click "Windows" -> new -> Key)
4. create DWORD value under "Explorer" called "DisableSearchBoxSuggestions" (*right click "Explorer" -> new ->*DWORD (32 bit) Value)
5. assign value of 1 to this newly created value (double click "DisableSearchBoxSuggestions" then type 1 in the "value data:" box. make sureHexadecimalis selected and click "OK")

restart the PC and now annoying trending search section is gone!