How to remove Bing search engine from the start menu in Windows 11 and solve slow file search problems

After its integration with Windows 10, many users are suffering from slow file searches looking for a way to remove Bing search engine from the Start Menu in Windows 11, Bing Search has become one of the constant sources of annoyance in both Windows 11 and 10. With Windows 10 Microsoft decided to combine Bing search with File Explorer's search bar, which made local searching for files on PC a horrible experience with an extremely slow response.

Displays Bing search results along with local results for your searches. When you perform a search to find a program or file on your device, Web Search results are displayed as well, which take a long time to load and unnecessarily interfere with a local search. So if you want to remove Bing search engine results from Start Menu in Windows 11, follow the guide below.

Remove Bing Search from Start Menu in Windows 11 2022

Method 1 to Remove and Disable Bing Search Engine in Start Menu on Windows 11, In this article we have included proven ways to remove Bing search results from Start Menu in Windows 11 which will help you speed up your File Explorer search and solve slow file explorer on Windows 11.

 

Disable Bing search results from Windows 11 using the Registry Editor

• Press the Windows key and type “Regedit“. Now in the search bar, or you can press the keyboard shortcut “Win + R” to open the Run dialog box and type “Regedit” to access the registry editor.

• Then open the Registry Editor.
• Next, head to the following path or copy and paste the path below into the address bar:

 

Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows

 

• Now, right-click on the “Windows” folder in the sidebar and create a new “key” by choosing New and then Key from the drop-down menu.
• Rename the new key you created to Explorer.

• Next, select the "Explorer" key from clicking on it and right-click on the empty space in the right part of the screen. Then, choose New -> DWORD (32-bit) Value. This new DWORD value will help you remove Bing search from Start Menu in Windows 11.

• Rename the new entry to DisableSearchBoxSuggestions.

• Now open the new enter key by double-clicking on it and changing the “Value data” to the value 1 and pressing ok.

• After it's finished, restart your computer, and you'll find that Bing search results are disabled in the Windows 11 Start Menu and no longer appear.

Remove Bing search results from Windows 11 using Group Policy Editor

If the previous method did not work for you to delete Bing search results from File Explorer in Windows 11, you can still disable Bing Search from the Start menu in Windows 11 via the Group Policy Editor. Here's how to do it in the following steps.

• Hit the Windows key and search for "Group Policy" in the Windows search bar.

• Now, open the “Group Policy Editor“. And if you are using Windows 11 Home, you need to enable Group Policy Editor on Home edition manually.
• After that expand and open the option User Configuration and then open "Administrative Templates" and then go to Windows Components and then File Explorer in the left part of the screen.

• And in the right part of the screen, find the setting with the following name "Turn off display of recent search entries in the File Explorer" to remove Bing search from the Start menu in Window 11.

• After you find the file, open it and select the "Enabled" radio button for this setting. Now, click OK and restart your Windows 11 PC.

• After you have done the above, you will not find any web search results from Bing in the Start Menu in Windows 11 anymore.