Win10 & 11 disable web search in Start menu

October 23, 2018

The Windows 10 spring update no longer lets you disable web search in Start - workaround reports that the following registry update is required in Windows 10 version 1803 : 

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Search] 
"BingSearchEnabled"=dword:00000000 
"AllowSearchToUseLocation"=dword:00000000 
"CortanaConsent"=dword:00000000 

It remarks :

those entries are completely missing from the "Search" registry key, so you can safely delete them should you want to revert. 

I would still recommend to at least create a system restore point before doing any registry modifications. A reboot might be required.

From < https://superuser.com/questions/1196618/how-to-disable-internet-search-results-in-start-menu-post-creators-update > 

Reg file saved at https://gist.github.com/maphew/58ad023d872059df8380094e740b949a

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For Windows 11 I only needed to add the BingSearchEnabled value. 

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Ready to go 2x-click reg file here (inspect here ). 

If you are (understandably) reluctant to go click-happy on that, navigate directly to the key with this string (3x-click to select in one action): 

Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Search 

Now go forth and reclaim your Slim Start Snappiness. No reboot or logoff necessary.