Recently my Windows 10 search bar started displaying unwanted content like this one:
Controlling this kind of behavior is usually a registry key and value. I have tried several with no success.
What is the correct registry key and entry to return it to an empty white box ?
33 Answers
This can be turned on and off by using the 'Show Search Highlights' option found by right clicking on the taskbar and expanding the 'Search ->' submenu:
This happened because your default search engine is Google and Google does this sort of thing from time to time.
You won't see it if your default engine is left as Bing, you just get the white box. Equally, wait 24 hours and Google will have gone back to normal.
It isn't a registry settings issue.
2You can do it according to @jack Aidley's answer.
But like OP said, this can also be done using a registry key.
The key is located at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\SearchSettings and you should see “IsDynamicSearchBoxEnabled”. If not, right-click or long-press in here and create a new 32-bit DWORD value and name it IsDynamicSearchBoxEnabled and for the value, we will set it to 0 to disable, or 1 to enable.
You can run this from the Command Prompt as administrator to disable the feature:
reg add "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\SearchSettings" /v "IsDynamicSearchBoxEnabled" /d 0 /t REG_DWORD /f
If you change the /d 0 to /d 1 it will re-enable it.
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