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

This seems to have worked for me. So relieved! Thanks Steve.

 

OK, after trying Steve's technique and it working (mostly), I have found that over the last hour or so while using my PC that the box is still occasionally popping up but I can't work out why. It used to be related to 2-finger scrolling down but Steve's solution has now stopped that.

I can't work out why it is still popping up but tried scd4f's solution just now.

As it happens, I had no 3-finger click options within my settings so I just switched 2-finger click off. I will update after I've tested it for a bit.

So far I've tried all the solutions suggested on this forum and each one seems to work a little bit but not completely.

What an annoying feature. Why make it impossible to remove???

 

Just signed up to add my experience. The above mentioned steps do work for me but only until the computer restarts or reboots. Any reset of the machine seems to restore the mouse settings back to default, even when using custom profiles through the mouse additional setting.

Really bloody annoying, hope this gets a fix soon!

 

I found the solution to on my laptop! I'm using a dell laptop and my laptop has an application call Dell touch pad, so what I did is that I open it, went into the gesture menu, then I deselected the "right edge swipe" and it was resolved.*cake*cake*Eek*Sleepy*Cool*Cool*Cool*Cool*Cool*Cool*Cool*Cool*Cool

 

I found the solution to on my laptop! I'm using a dell laptop and my laptop has an application call Dell touch pad, so what I did is that I open it, went into the gesture menu, then I deselected the "right edge swipe" and it was resolved.

 

I found the solution to on my laptop! I'm using a dell laptop and my laptop has an application call Dell touch pad, so what I did is that I open it, went into the gesture menu, then I deselected the "right edge swipe" and it was resolved. ujh

 

I found the solution to on my laptop! I'm using a dell laptop and my laptop has an application call Dell touch pad, so what I did is that I open it, went into the gesture menu, then I deselected the "right edge swipe" and it was resolved. simple i guess

 

The solution for HP laptops is not the three finger flick setting (which is actually what it says instead of click). I found out that the solution is actually on the same page as the other solution that didn't work for me. What I had to do was turn off my "tapping" setting. This got rid of any possibility of me three finger clicking, but it also got rid of my tap to click feature. So if you're willing to give up your tap to click to get rid of pesky Cortana, that's the way to do it. Hope this helps you guys that are having issues!

 

Thanks scd4f. Your fix worked for me. I also have a Synaptics Touch Pad.

 

Weirdly I only get this problem whilst using the Paint program - an important tool for me - I've tried all of the suggestions on this site & several others with no success.
I've even contacted Microbrains but have gotten only formula patronising suggestions.
I may go back to 7 rather than 8.1 - at least then I had no trouble with anything.

 

THIS SOLVED MY PROBLEM!

Very much appreciated! It was so annoying as I use the trackpad to scroll up and down all the time; I'd looked in the mouse/trackpad area but hadn't seen this settings box.

Is this "problem" particular to HP laptops? I only experienced this on my work PC which is an HP; I also have an ASUS running Windows 10 and this never happens...

 

None of these help & god alone knows what I've turned off that I shouldn't have....
My only real problem with it popping up is when I'm using the Paint program, I use this A LOT, so it is becoming particularly annoying, it may mean dumping 10 in favour of 7 - let's face it 8.1 is just as bad.

 

This sounds like Virus activity, normally my search box does not pop up. And, after I originally used Cortana, it vanished.

Check your Startup Programs for anything that does not look like an actual Microsoft command line. also check tasks, many virii add tasks that mimic real MS features, I have seen the Security Center for Windows 7 mimicked perfectly.

 

This has been bothering me for a few days now I have literally spent hours trying to figure out how to stop this from popping up. I tried all of the suggestions listed above but to no avail. Finally today I think I found a way to stop it on my machine any way I hope this helps.

First: Click the windows button in the lower left corner and select settings.
Second: In setting select System>About which is located at the very bottom.
Third: In the about section scroll down and Additional administrative tools located under the Related Settings heading.
Fourth: When you select Administrative Tools in the box that pops up the first category should be Component Services select it.
Fifth: After selecting Component Services under the Console root select Services(local).
Sixth: Scroll down until until you find Windows Search and disable it!!!!!

I hope this makes sense and hopefully it will help someone. This is the only thing that has worked for me.
I'm going to try to insert a screen shot below of where I was able to disable the search.

 

This did not work!!!! THIS IS DRIVING ME CRAZY DOES ANYONE HAVE A SOLUTION?