Windows 10: Help to stop windows 10 search box constantly popping up

Hi

I've just installed windows 10 on my laptop. Initially a box on the left hand side telling me about cortana kept popping up so I switched cortanat off. Now the box just keeps popping up constantly, asking me to start typing to search the web or for apps etc.

This is driving me mad. I'm not 100% sure yet but it seems to be connected to scrolling down but also seems to be popping up quite randomly. In the last half hour it has popped up at various intervals from as little as 10-20 seconds to as 'long' as 2-3 minutes. There is no 'close' box and I can't see how to get rid of this really annoying feature.

Can anyone help?

Thanks.

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Start menu opens up while scrolling

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Slow internet and the Cortana / Search Window keeps popping up

So far I am not very impressed with Windows 10. Ever since I downloaded it my internet runs slow - it ran just fine prior to the installation of Windows 10. And I am so tired of the Cortana / Search Window popping up - constantly!! I have turned it
off, and it still pops up. I would love to give Windows 10 a chance, but right now I am so frustrated with the Search Window constantly interrupting me I am considering getting rid of this new version. Can anyone tell me a way to stop the the Search Window
from popping up??? I will deal with and work on the slow internet but I need to get rid of that window first!!! Thanks.

 

Hi 'lain01', welcome to tenforums.com! *Smile

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/3...dows-10-a.html

Turn 3 off:

 

Hi Edwin,

Thanks for the welcome and the suggestion however, I have already turned cortana off, but the search box pops up instead and I can't figure out how to stop this. Do you know?

Thanks

 

Try here:

 

Hmmm, my screen looks a bit different to yours and I don't have that option within that window however I did find it elsewhere and have turned it off.

The box seems to have stopped popping up for the time being so I think maybe that has worked, just hope it doesn't start again!

Thanks for your help.

 

Nope, here it is again and again. Is there no way of getting the "search the web and windows" box off my taskbar and stopping this infuriating thing?

 

I'm having the exact same problem. I have Windows 10 on an HP laptop and I have turned everything off that I can think of and the search/Cortana box keeps popping up. There doesn't seem to be any pattern just sometimes it will pop up when I'm scrolling through web pages and other times it doesn't. I've gone into my touch pad settings and turned off anything related to Cortana. This is extremely annoying.

 

hi
not sure this will help but its worth a try.right click on the task bar. from the box that opens up select search, then from the next box select hidden. that gets rid of the search box but unsure if it will resolve your issue

 

I may have found a solution. Click the start button and select settings. Then select Devices. Click on Mouse and Touch Pad and scroll to the bottom and select "Additional Mouse Options." This brings up a box that should have the information and name of the type of touch pad your computer has. Mine says "Synaptics Touch Pad....". Click on settings and then in the new box that pops up you should see a tab that says "Tapping". Open that tab and you should then see "Three Finger Tap" and "Four Finger Tap". Uncheck those boxes and then click "Apply". That should take care of it. I'm no computer expert so I hope that's easy to follow. So far I've not had the box pop up anymore.

Apparently you can open the Search/Cortana box with a 3 finger click and my touch pad must have been getting confused.

 

i have the exact same problem and it is so frustrating, please help me lol

i cant believe windows would release windows 10 with this intrusive bug

 

Hi guys,

I'm having the same issue as well. I've got a HP Pavillion n297sa laptop, upgraded from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10 on the 29th. The problem only ever occurs when I'm using two-finger scrolling and more often than not occurs when I'm scrolling down. So far it only seems to be limited to scrolling on web pages.

Anyone found a solution for this yet?

 

Registered here specifically to say thanks for this. I had the same problem too, mainly when scrolling using two fingers. Turns out I was just being clumsy. At last I can stop swearing at Cortana!

Thank you very much scd4f

 

Yes, I agree! I went and tested scd4f's theory and it is exactly the problem. I suppose like davehx, I, too, was just accidentally hitting the touch-pad with an extra finger while scrolling. Glad to have this problem solved.

Big thanks to scd4f!


EDIT:

While search is activated by three-finger tapping, disabling three-finger tapping doesn't seem to disable three-finger tapping for the search bar...problem still there and the search continues...