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Remove 'Search Bing in sidebar' using policy, startup flag or registry
Hooray! Once the https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/edge/business/download?form=MA13FJ Definitions https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/configure-microsoft-edge#add-the-administrative-template-to-an-individual-computer, you can set it as follows. I have set it at the Computer Configuration level in this case.
Super happy this has been implemented!
Kelly_Y we are now at v111 and it's not working, what's going on?
Apparently it needs to be set to 2 instead of 0, talk about unintuitive. But yay, at least it works.
Microsoft
Yes, hooray, finally we're free from Search Bing in sidebar right-click context menu tyranny.
Set-ItemProperty -Path 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge' -Name 'SearchInSidebarEnabled' -Type DWord -Value 2
May need to give it a kick with gpupdate /force or wait for the next 90-minute group policy refresh for it to take effect.
I made a .reg file to disable both the Bing button and the Sidebar options in right-clicks.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1slL3sHuWLLrV5nqWEvggXGt2PcuAtptt/view?usp=sharing
After importing, navigate to "edge://policy/" and reload policies.
Cheers.
- Thank you so much for the Registry file. It absolutely works without even reloading policies.
"Search Bing in Sidebar" option in the Context Menu is finally gone at last.
