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How to Disable Web Results in Windows 10 Search |
mixes search results and suggested queries in with your local files. Say you were looking for a wordpad document with a list of amazon purchases in it. As soon as you type "ama," you see a link to Amazon.com as the top suggestion, above the file you were looking for.
Not only can web results come up higher than your local files, but they also slow down your search because they have to hit the Internet rather than just your hard drive index. Here's how to stop Windows 10 search from showing web results.
Note: In order to disable web results in search, you also have to disable Cortana.
1. Select the search box in Windows 10's taskbar. Cortana's greeting and news feed results should appear.
2. Click the notebook icon in the left pane. It's directly under the home (aka house) icon
4. Click Settings. A menu of Cortana options appears.
5. Toggle "Cortana can give you suggestions . . . " to off.
6. Toggle "Search online and include web results" to off.
The searchbox will now say "Search Windows" instead of "Ask me
anything." It will be more responsive and only show results from your
hard drive or local network.
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