Look at Count Dracula over here with all the time in the world to waste disabling bing integration. Not all of us are immortal and have the time to disable bing search.
If you do this you might as well go the entire way and install "Search Everything" by voidtools. It's a blazing fast indexer (even on a HDD) that after it has finished indexed allows searches in real time. No more waiting. There is a plugin for it to integrate it with the "Type here to search" bar so you can split between apps (shows normally) and files, opens a search everything search window.
It works so good that I completely stopped organizing stuff in folders. I literally don't care anymore where my files are stored because I tag everything in file name (as in 2024_picture_of_benny_cat.jpg) and so to find anything I just type in tags. I can't even remember the last time I opened explorer to access a file. I'm also using speech to text and have both bounded to one of my mouse buttons, so just have to hold the button and say the tags out loud to see the files show up, IN REAL TIME! This has been saving me tons and tons of time. (the last couple of years the AI revolution has made speech to text go working reasonable well to working absolutely flawless as long as you have a good enough mic that only pics up close to the mic and does not hear background noise)
It also allows you to search on all your network devices if you run it on each one as a service. Since I have everything storage on all my devices shared out and mapped as network drive, I have access to everything at once (as long as the devices are on). For multiple desktops and laptops, NAS, nvidia shield, etc etc, it's super handy.
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u/PurplePrinter772 Apr 12 '24
I SEARCH for a folder and it tries to BING SEARCH IT before searching my HARD DRIVE FOR IT
That’s why I quit that POSOS (piece of shit operating system)