Windows 10: Explore and Bing will not disable

Explore does not show up in add remove. I have turned windows features off by unchecking explorer, after rebooting I went back in to make sure it was still unchecked and it was and explorer automatically launched again. Also I am not able to change my search engine no matter what I do Bing always comes right back. I know a previous post said that you can't uninstall explorer, but I want it to quit defaulting back, specially with Bing I loathe it with a passion and I feel like it's a virus at this point.

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Here is the way Bing bar is removed from IE:

Remove Bing Bar toolbar from Internet Explorer
To remove Bing Bar toolbar from IE browser, perform these steps:

• Open Internet Explorer by clicking its icon on the desktop or the taskbar
• Click Tools, located on the right-hand side, and then click Manage Add-ons
• Browse through the options in the right pane to locate Bing Bar
• Select Bing Bar by clicking it, and then click the Disable button at the bottom of the window
• Select the box before Bing Bar BHO under the heading Bing Bar in the Disable Add-on window
• Click the Disable button

 

Gooogle without {searchTerms} pretyped after click (Windows 10 mobile)

Hi,

This is how it's done using Internet Explorer/Bing Search

Windows Phone 8 - Disable Bing's auto suggestions

 

Windows Explorer is not a program that you can make changes to. It is a part of Windows that works off of Internet Explorer in the design that it has been since XP came out. There is an app out there for Firefox that you can use Google instead of Bing. You do have to have Firefox installed.

 

Perhaps you mean Internet Explorer?

Whilst you can remove it, it's not really a good idea, as occasionally you may find a program that invokes it despite whatever yuo have done to set a different browser as default. Why? Bad programming- Internet Explorer is hard coded rather than your default browser being used.

I have Firefox as default. I never normally see IE (except as above) and FF remains my default.
I would examine and record carefully when you see IE launched.
Note that if the above applies, then you will get no browser launched, and maybe just an obscure error message.

However, if you insist on removing it:



via Control Panel, as it has been in Windows for many many years.

- the obvious question is
Which browser are you using?

I can give you instructions for Firefox, but you might not be using it.