Windows 10: Enable or Disable Show Cloud Content in Search Results in Windows 10

How to: Enable or Disable Show Cloud Content in Search Results in Windows 10

How to Enable or Disable Show Cloud Content in Search Results in Windows 10


Search on your taskbar makes it easier for you to search the web and Windows.

Starting with Windows 10 build 16237, Microsoft added a new option to Cortana to enable or disable showing your cloud content in the search results.

Cortana and Search has been separated starting with Windows 10 version 1903.

This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off Windows Cloud Search showing cloud content in the search results for your account or all users in Windows 10.


CONTENTS:

• Option One: Turn On or Off show Cloud Content in Search Results for Current User in Settings
• Option Two: Enable or Disable show Cloud Content in Search Results for All Users in Local Group Policy Editor
• Option Three: Enable or Disable show Cloud Content in Search Results for All Users using a REG file

OPTION ONE [/i] Turn On or Off Show Cloud Content in Search Results for Current User in Settings
1. Open Settings, and click/tap on the Search icon.

2. Click/tap on Permissions & History on the left side, and perform one of the available actions below: (see screenshot below)
A) Turn on (default) or off Windows Cloud Search for what you want under Cloud Search on the right side.

OR

B) Turn on (default) or off Microsoft account and/or Work or School account for what you want under Cloud content search on the right side.
3. When finished, you can close Settings if you like.











OPTION TWO [/i] Enable or Disable Show Cloud Content in Search Results for All Users in Local Group Policy Editor

*note You must be signed in as an administrator to do this option.

If enabled or disabled, this option will override and gray out Option One.

The Local Group Policy Editor is only available in the Windows 10 Pro, Enterprise, and Education editions.

All editions can use Option Three.
1. Open the Local Group Policy Editor.

2. In the left pane of Local Group Policy Editor, navigate to the location below. (see screenshot below)
*Arrow Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Search




3. In the right pane of Search, double click/tap on the Allow Cloud Search policy to edit it. (see screenshot above)

4. Do step 5 (always enable), step 6 (disable), or step 7 (default) below for what you would like to do.


5. To Always Enable Show Cloud Content in Search Results
A) Select (dot) Enabled, select Enable Cloud Search in the "Cloud Search Setting" drop down menu, click/tap on OK, and go to step 8 below. (see screenshot below)

6. To Disable Show Cloud Content in Search Results
A) Select (dot) Enabled, select Disable Cloud Search in the "Cloud Search Setting" drop down menu, click/tap on OK, and go to step 8 below. (see screenshot below)

7. Default (user choice) Show Cloud Content in Search Results
A) Select (dot) Not Configured, click/tap on OK, and go to step 7 below. (see screenshot below)




8. When finished, you can close Local Group Policy Editor if you like.





OPTION THREE [/i] Enable or Disable Show Cloud Content in Search Results for All Users using a REG file

*note You must be signed in as an administrator to do this option.

If enabled or disabled, this option will override and gray out Option One.

The downloadable .reg files below will add and modify the DWORD value in the registry key below.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search

AllowCloudSearch DWORD

(delete) = Default
0 = Disable
1 = Always enable


1. Do step 2 (always enable), step 3 (disable), or step 4 (default) below for what you would like to do.


2. To Always Enable Show Cloud Content in Search Results
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 5 below.

Always_enable_Cloud_Search_for_all_users.reg

Download

3. To Disable Show Cloud Content in Search Results
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 5 below.

Disable_Cortana_Search_for_all_users.reg

Download

4. Default (user choice) Show Cloud Content in Search Results
*note This is the default setting.
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 5 below.

Default_user_choice_Cloud_Search.reg

Download
5. Save the .reg file to your desktop.

6. Double click/tap on the downloaded .reg file to merge it.

7. When prompted, click/tap on Run, Yes (UAC), Yes, and OK to approve the merge.

8. You can now delete the downloaded .reg file if you like.

That's it,
Shawn


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Disable Web Search Results in Windows 10 Start Menu

Hi Taira,

Disabling web results in the search box depends on the version and build of your Windows 10. We suggest checking the Windows 10 version and build installed on your computer. To check the version and build, follow the steps below:

• On Cortana search, type winver and press
  Enter.
• A pop-up box will appear containing the version and build of your operating system.

Meanwhile, you can try these steps on how to disable web results in the search box:

• Click the search box in the taskbar.
• Select the Notebook icon
  
  
  in the left pane.
• Click Settings from the list.
• In the Settings page, turn off the Cortana can give you suggestions, ideas, reminders, alerts and more option.
• Also, turn off the Search online and include web results option.

If you need further assistance, don't hesitate to reach out.

 

How to disable search online in the start menu

Turn On or Off Search online and include web results in Windows 10
- see post #5 ref build 1803

and more:
Enable or Disable Cortana showing Cloud Content in Search Results

https://www.windowslatest.com/2018/04/16/cortana-web-search-cannot-be-disabled-in-windows-10-version-1803/
- discussion

Here's Winaero's approach for 1803 (read down for the solution - hopefully...)
Disable Web Search in Windows 10 version 1803




included in latest version of Winaero's free tweaker

 

Search


Have a look at two of Brink's tutorials and decide which one best suits what you want to achieve:

How to Enable or Disable Cortana showing Cloud Content in Search Results in Windows 10

or the one I use:

How to Enable or Disable Cortana in Windows 10

Hope this helps...

 

Windows 10 search is not searching for file contents in OneDrive folder

Hi,



Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.



We understand your concern as Windows 10 search is not searching for file contents in OneDrive folder.



In this scenario, we would suggest you to perform these steps and check Windows 10 search is able to search the file in OneDrive folder.

1. Press Windows + I key to launch
   Windows Settings.
   
2. Select Cortana and click
   Permissions & History from the left pane.
   
3. Toggle the Windows Cloud Search switch to
   On, which present under Cloud Search.
   
4. Restart the page and then initiate Windows Search.

However, we do have a dedicated support team for OneDrive related queries, you can get in touch with them for further assistance. Follow the below steps to contact the OneDrive support team.



Sign in to OneDrive.com from any browser, click the ‘?’ help icon on the top banner of the page and select
Email OneDrive support. Submit your question and follow the prompts to request support.



Regards,



Aditya Roy

Microsoft Community – Moderator

 

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Hi,

Win 10 Pro version 1607

There alot of posts on these topics, and at least some are outdated. Hoping for some new insight that I couldn't find amongst all the older posts.

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• Indexing has been "completed" on this new Windows 10 Pro machine. I have a 1TB data drive with 500GB of documents, images, videos, etc. The data drive is included in the indexed locations. Identically named files in one folder on the drive show up in
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Things I have tried:

• Running the troubleshooter as an administrator: no suggestions.
• Rebuilding the index. I am unclear whether I "did this as an administrator". I did it while logged in as an administrator, but I cannot right click and run the Indexing Options "as an administrator".
• I have verified that text document types (word docs, txt, etc.) have both properties and contents indexed.

Thanks

Russell