Windows 10: PC rebooted and now only Bing - FF gone

A couple of hours ago my computer rebooted and updated while I was sitting here, without any particular reason. I am using Win 10 Pro. V 10.0.18363

When The system came back - the only browser in the system was Bing. I have never used Bing. Tried going to my FireFox and the FF icon reinstalled Bing. I have found no way to change that. I can not see any FF at all. All my work in process is gone (6 windows of many sites each).

I have been trying to look at things (with little actual understanding), but I have not figured how to get full access to the system.

Anyone have any suggestions?

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Bing search engine

Ive gone through everything, only a couple of things I did not know of in control panel so have unistalled them, only other thing was Shazam, have also removed that.
I have gone back to that page clicked on restore, it shows FF as browser which I want and google as home page, which I want, and also still says Google default. Ive done what others have suggested, gone into config there is no mention of bing anywhere, so being very limited in knowledge and not sure about delving into oc works im stuck. I dont even know how or why it changed from google search results to this blasted bing.

 

how to remove bing

Hi NCA666,

My name is Roger W, an independent advisor trying to help. Let's try with the following suggestions, please:

Step 1:

Steps for removing Bing from search bar:

1. In Search type “Cortana & Search Settings” and hit enter.

2. You will have to find “Search online and include web results” feature and toggle the switch to disable it.

Note: Set the switch to “Off” state.

3. Reboot the Windows 10 device and your Bing search bar should be disabled.

Step 2:

Steps for removing Bing from the Browser.

Open Internet Explorer and click on the Gear icon.

Click on the ‘Manage add-ons’ option.

Click on ‘Search Providers’ which is on left pane.

Right click on ‘Bing’ where is listed under the ‘Name:’ column.

Click on ‘Remove’ from the drop-down menu.

Keep us posted if you face any issues on windows in future. We will be glad to help you.

Let us know if the solution above works for you.

 

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