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Re:No Start Menu for You by nikau on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @06:06AM (#34425420)
There is a registry key that turns off web search in win10, it makes it much nicer.
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Re:No Start Menu for You by adzm on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @07:12AM (#34425792)
For posterity,

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer

DisableSearchBoxSuggestions DWORD

Set its value to 1.

Should work for Windows 11 and 10

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Re:No Start Menu for You by paulcapewell on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @09:34AM (#34427034)
I don't see an Explorer folder under that path on my installation.
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Re:No Start Menu for You by avx56 on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @10:21AM (#34427700)
That's a Windows registry path, you can use regedit to edit the values. Microsoft has a reasonable guide for it: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-serve...
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Re:No Start Menu for You by paulcapewell on Thursday January 19, 2023 @04:57AM (#34438536)
No, I know - thank you - but I mean there is no Explorer at that path in regedit for me.
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Re:No Start Menu for You by jbellis on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @10:55AM (#34428288)
Me, neither. The other one I see on Google is HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Search, and that doesn't exist either.
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