How to Turn Off Bing Web Search Recommendations from the Start Menu in Windows 11

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The article instructs students and new users on disabling Bing web search suggestions in Windows 11. Bing’s suggestions appear if a local search doesn’t match any content on the PC, which some users find distracting. The process requires using either the group policy editor or Windows registry, as there’s no straightforward switch-off option. After modifying…

This post shows students and new users steps to turn off Bing web search suggestions on the Start menu in Windows 11.

When you search in Windows, and the keyword doesn’t match content on the local machine, you will get a list of web results suggestions from Bing.

This might be useful for some, but for others, it’s distracting and not very helpful when searching for local content. Searching for content also doesn’t look good on the Start menu.

Windows does not provide an easy way to turn it off. If you need to disable Bing search suggestions from the web, you’ll need to use the group policy editor or Windows registry.

Below is how to turn off Bing search results suggestions in the Windows 11 Start menu or the search box.

How to turn off web search results in suggestions in Windows 11

As mentioned above, when you search in Windows, and the keyword doesn’t match content on the local machine, you will get a list of web results suggestions from Bing in the Start menu or Windows Search box.

If you don’t want to get suggestions from Bing on the Start menu or Windows Search, then the steps below show you how to turn it off. Unfortunately, there’s no easy way to turn off this feature except by using the local group policy editor or Windows registry.

Using Local Group Policy Editor:

The quickest way to turn off web search result suggestions in Windows 11 is using the local group policy editor.

Open the Windows group policy editor by going to the Start menu, searching for “Edit group policy,” and selecting Open.

Once the policy editor opens, browse the path below:

User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > File Explorer

On the right pane, locate the policy item “Turn off display of recent search entries in the File Explorer search box” and select, then double-click to open.

When the policy item opens, select Enabled to disable search suggestions from Bing on the Start menu or Search box.

Exit and restart your computer for the changes to apply.

Using Windows Registry:

To use the Windows registry to turn off web search suggestions, open the Registry editor.

When the registry editor opens, browse the path below:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows

Next, right-click the Windows key, select the New menu, and choose the Key.

Name the key Explorer and press Enter. Next, right-click the newly created Key (Explorer), select the New, and then choose the DWORD (32-bit) Value.

Name the DWORD DisableSearchBoxSuggestions and press Enter. Next, double-click the newly created Key and change its Value from 0 to 1.

Click OK to save. Exit and restart your computer.

That should do it

Conclusion:

This post showed you how to turn off Bing web search suggestions in Windows 11. Please use the comment form below if you find any errors above or have something to add.

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