Windows "Search Bar" - how to get rid of this "virus"?

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Turned on my PC today and some updates have run, and I now have this **** search bar in the middle of my screen:

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Any advice on how to uninstall/permanently disable it?

I've tried Google, but it just gives pages about how to get rid of the search in the taskbar/start menu
 
Windows 11? Try turning Widgets off in the Task bar settings.

Actually, it might related to the Search setting in the task bar as well.
 
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Murphy said:
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Enable or Disable Microsoft Edge Desktop Search Bar in Windows 10

The Microsoft Edge web browser is based on Chromium and was released on January 15, 2020. It is compatible with all supported versions of Windows, and macOS. With speed, performance, best in class compatibility for websites and extensions, and built-in pr
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Ahh, thanks, that looks like it should do it. Annoying having to figure out exactly what it's called in order to search for it :p
 
Was just browsing the tenforums tutorials and apparently there's two ways to disable it, that link i posted earlier disables it for all users but you can also disable it on a per user basis by clicking on the three dots menu and unticking auto-launch search bar.
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Disable Microsoft Edge Desktop Search Bar at Startup in Windows 10

The Microsoft Edge web browser is based on Chromium and was released on January 15, 2020. It is compatible with all supported versions of Windows, and macOS. With speed, performance, best in class compatibility for websites and extensions, and built-in pr
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Murphy said:
Was just browsing the tenforums tutorials and apparently there's two ways to disable it, that link i posted earlier disables it for all users but you can also disable it on a per user basis by clicking on the three dots menu and unticking auto-launch search bar.
www.tenforums.com

Disable Microsoft Edge Desktop Search Bar at Startup in Windows 10

The Microsoft Edge web browser is based on Chromium and was released on January 15, 2020. It is compatible with all supported versions of Windows, and macOS. With speed, performance, best in class compatibility for websites and extensions, and built-in pr
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I'd rather remove all traces of its existence from the source code, but disabling it for all users is a reasonable compromise :p
 
Is there no option in Edge's settings as well? Seeing as it's tied to Edge I would've thought Microsoft would at least have the settings for it somewhere there.
 
Haggisman said:
No idea - the only time I've ever used Edge is to download Chrome :cry:
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You might want to open it up and make sure in Settings -> System and performance startup boost and continue running in background is turned off, about a month ago I was so confused why I saw Edge processes running in task manager even though I haven't touched it for ages.
 
Orcvader said:
You might want to open it up and make sure in Settings -> System and performance startup boost and continue running in background is turned off, about a month ago I was so confused why I saw Edge processes running in task manager even though I haven't touched it for ages.
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Thanks - just checked and those were both enabled, so turned them off
 
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