It sounds obvious Microsoft giving the option to disable stuff, especially when they know not everyone is going to use it.īuilding features like a button to disable something is not too hard or takes to long, but I am sure it wasn’t a “well people are complaining, we will make a button” the flag and everything had to be in place for this, they just had to expose it in the settings UI, you have to have everything planned so you don’t have to go back and move things around in the future. If Edge was fully opens source and you could see each commit they do to the browser, people probably would understand this probably was added to a PR days ago, and they just didn’t finish it until later.
It is all planned, there is no “we need to rush to add an option to disable it” I mean, people also complained about the ‘search tabs’ button in Chromium browsers, people complain about everything, they complain about the jigsaw extensions button, and sometimes it makes sense to change it or not, if Microsoft wasn’t planning to add this setting to turn Discovery off, they would have just change it of place and move on, it was already planned, but most of the time companies add a feature and then they add a way to turn it off, happens to any company. You’ll have a Bing-free Start Menu once it is done restarting.Giving the option to disable now is = cave in? what a weird clickbait title… It was a weird placement for a feature, so obviously they would get criticism. You can restart it manually in the Task Manager if you want, but restarting your whole computer will accomplish the same thing. Then all you have to do is restart Explorer.exe. You’ll get a popup warning you that REG files might be harmful to your computer - go ahead and click “Yes.” RELATED: The Best File Archiving Program for Windowsĭouble-click the REG file named “Disable Bing Searches.reg.” If you don’t have one, don’t worry - Windows 11 can open ZIP files natively, without third-party apps. Open up the ZIP file with any file archiving program you like. You should open up a REG file in a plain text editor and check if it is safe. The other one restores Bing search to the Start Menu if you decide you want it back.ĭisable Bing in the Start Menu Note: You should not usually trust random REG files you download off of the Internet. One of them, “Disable Bing Searchs.reg,” disables Bing search. If you don’t want to do it yourself, we’ve created two REG files that’ll handle everything automatically. RELATED: How to Restart Windows' Explorer.exe (Along With the Taskbar and Start Menu) Disable Bing With Our Registry Hackįiddling with the Registry can be tedious. If you don’t want to do that manually, you can just restart your PC.
Once you have created the DWORD and set its value, you need to restart Explorer.exe.
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