Do you get any error messages? If yes, what is the exact error message? What happens when you try to uninstall Windows Search? I would suggest you to uninstall the Windows Search from the computer and install it manually and check if it helps. Step 1: Uninstall Windows Search. Step 2: Now install the update manually from Microsoft Download Center. Hope this information helps. Hi All,. I am using Windows Vista SP2. I deleted Windows Search 4.
Please help! Tuesday, June 16, PM. Thanks a lot for this simple and most effective solution! Tuesday, July 7, AM. Friday, July 24, AM. I have tried everything here but to no avail. None of the KB I use Google Desktop Search and I'm happy with that. I don't need another desktop search program. Google doesn't chew up my computer resources while I'm using the computer to work. Why does Microsoft push unwanted software unto their clients' machines that wastes their computer resources so seriously?
This is not the way to become popular. Thursday, September 3, PM. That does it. That's what contains Windows Desktop Search. That's a real nuisance of a name as it means one has to look under "B" to remove a program known as MSN. I hope I finally got rid of it after rebooting. Good riddance. The message telling the user to remove previous versions of Windows Desktop Search before V4 can be installed is very badly written, as it should point to MSN Search Toolbar.
Thanks for your simple direction on how to remove Windows Search window. Friday, May 14, PM. Typical microsoft for you! Right up there with trying to install Microsoft updates and it stops to ask you if you're sure and if you trust where it's coming from. Friday, August 27, PM. That I believe! Dave Woods's answer was helpful to me. Paste into the new text file the following lines starting below..
Reg [Del. Save the text file. Follow the on-screen prompted, to complete the uninstall. Reboot That's it. Another hot tip from Paulie D. Thursday, September 9, AM. Dave's option 3: - below did the trick for me!! Thanks Dave! Thursday, January 13, PM. Saturday, April 23, AM. Friday, September 2, AM. This is absolutely awful software. Friday, September 9, AM. Friday, October 7, PM. Sunday, October 30, PM. Uninstall Windows Search 4.
Reply to author. Report message as abuse. Show original message. Either email addresses are anonymous for this group or you need the view member email addresses permission to view the original message. Hello, I want to uninstall Windows Search 4.
That was a success. Hi Nepatsfan, When I followed your instructions clearly for a second time everything worked, thank you. You're welcome. Thanks for letting us know you were able to uninstall Windows Search. Many thanks! I have found that Windows Search takes forever to index and really slows down my PC. I'm perfectly happy with Google Search and so don't need it anyway.
I followed your instructions and uninstalled Search. I appreciate that there are helpful people like yourself to bail out us dummies. Happy New Year! Nepatsfan: I would like to uninstall Windows Search 4. However, when I attempt to remove it I get an intimidating note that says other programs on my computer may depend on Windows Search and may not work properly if Windows Search is removed.
When it opens, type regedit into it and press the Enter key to open Registry Editor. When the Registry Editor opens, head to the following path, find the entry named SearchboxTaskbarMode and right-click on it and select Modify.
On the following screen, you should be able to change the value of the entry. It will be 1 by default but you need to enter 0 in the Value data field and click on OK. There are two others values that you can use and those are:. There you go. Reboot your PC and you will find that the Registry Editor has removed the huge search bar from your Taskbar making more space available for other apps to be pinned there.
One of the key reasons said by many users to remove the search bar is because they don't want it to show web results. If that's the case with you, you have an option to disable web results in your Windows 10 search. Click on the search bar in your Taskbar and select the Notebook icon followed by the Settings option.
On the following screen, turn off the option that says Cortana can give you suggestions, ideas, reminders, alerts and more. Also turn off another option that says Search online and include web results.
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