For some reason Microsoft have decided that everyone needs a huge Bing button on their web browser that doesn’t fit in with the rest of Edges UI…

The Bing button on Edge

Yes, things like this really do annoy me for some reason. Thankfully you can disable the Bing button with a registry modification, either for the current user, or all users.

Open “regedit” and navigate to one of the following keys, these possibly will not exist so you might have to create them:

All users: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge
Current user: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge

Inside the Edge folder create a new DWORD HubsSidebarEnabled with the value 0

Disabling the Bing button on Microsoft Edge with the registry editor

Now re-start Microsoft Edge and the annoying Bing button in the top right will be no more.

You can also do this in PowerShell by running the following commands:

New-Item -Path HKCU:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge
New-ItemProperty -Path HKCU:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge -Name HubsSidebarEnabled -Value 0 -PropertyType Dword
Disabling the Bing button on Microsoft Edge with PowerShell

We can go on enjoying using Edge for a bit longer now, until Manifest V3 breaks content filtering plugins anyway… Firefox seems more appealing every day.

Author

Matt has always had a passion for computers, gadgets and technology. He will never be found too far away from a good cuppa tea.

Write A Comment

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.