A how-To: Disable adverts and websearch on Windows start menu

I probably spend too much time blocking adverts. They are really fucking irritating. Today's ire was from me hiting Start, typing "iperf" because I wanted to run iperf3 and seeing an advert for car insurance.... WTF? I am not looking for insurance and this this MY Windows 11 pro licence. I bought it. Fuck off.

/ rant.

Here's the how-to.

1. Open regedit as admin
2. navigate to Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\
3. Create a new key called Explorer
4. Inside that, create a new DWORD called DisableSearchBoxSuggestions
5. Set value to 1.
6. Reboot.
7. No more adverts.

Hopefully that helps someone.

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