Eliminating Bing and Cortana

[SunTrader]

Is there any way to eliminate Bing from my PC?

I did it right when I got first win 10 pc with it on it. How? What else, I googled how lol.

 

[DallasCowboysFan]

You try control panel and uninstall? I’ve used windows 10 since release on a few machines and never see what your talking about. Also been using new Edge Chromium with nothing like that.

I did not see it on the Control Panel or Programs.
I wonder if Bing loaded from another program I downloaded or a link I hit by mistake.

 

[DallasCowboysFan]

I did it right when I got first win 10 pc with it on it. How? What else, I googled how lol.

I did too, but if I recall it said I was stuck with it and could not delete certain MSFT programs.
But perhaps the author was not as bright as the people here.
We put too much confidence in the authors of internet stories.

 

[DallasCowboysFan]

I use Firefox and Pale Moon. Have Edge disabled.

I was using G Chrome at first then switched to FFox because it was faster and more private.
Then I moved to Brave and DDGo because it uses a VPN and does not sell information.

 

[schizo]

I did not see it on the Control Panel or Programs.
I wonder if Bing loaded from another program I downloaded or a link I hit by mistake.

Isn't Bing simply a search engine and not a browser? The default browser for Win10 is Edge. Post a screenshot of Bing for reference.

 

[DallasCowboysFan]

I used Revo Uninstaller to remove Cortana, One Drive, and others.

I used it to download XBox and FFox, but I did not see Cortana and Bing.

I'll try Gaussian's suggestion next.

But the Revo suggestion was good......there are a lot of options in the taskbar...thanks.

 

[Turveyd]

Pale Moon is an offshoot of Firefox.

You can go into the Group Policy editor and disable Automatic Updates.. and then delay/control Windows updates manually. You can delay new versions of 10 for up to a year... give them time to fix things before they get onto your machine.

Yeah found that 2nd time most got killed, old windows method switches itself back on again.

 

[Scataphagos]

I used it to download XBox and FFox, but I did not see Cortana and Bing.

I'll try Gaussian's suggestion next.

But the Revo suggestion was good......there are a lot of options in the taskbar...thanks.

I used Revo to delete Cortana et al from W10 V1809 and 1909 (different machines). I'm thinking MSFT might put Cortana back on my rig when I update to 2004. Will have to see then if I can still uninstall "things". (That will have to wait. I've got "2004 upgrade" on delay for 1 year.)

In Firefox Options/Preferences, you can specify a default search engine. You can also specify other search engines NOT be used. It is there you might be able to exclude Bing. (??)

 

[BorisSutherland]

A Google search should do the job