Windows 10: How can I remove "Top Apps", "Suggested", and "Quick Searches"

How can i remove the "Top Apps", "Quick Searches", and "Suggested" from my search menuI cant upload a screenshot, it just fails every time

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How can I remove "Quick Searches", "Top apps" and "Suggested" from windows 11 start menu search box?

Thanks for reaching out. My name is, Zadee. I'm an Independent Advisor and a Microsoft user like you. I'll be glad to help you today.

Please see this article:

https://www.elevenforum.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-disable-quick-searches.1840/

For the top apps, that might not be possible just yet, other users also tried to remove that but failed.

https://www.surfacetablethelp.com/2...op-apps-in-search-dialogue-on-windows-11.html

For the suggested apps, are you referring to the Start Menu "Show most used apps"? I don't see this when Search is opened.

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How do I remove "suggested" and "Top apps" from the search bar in windows 10?

None of the options in the settings menu remove Top Apps or Suggested from the search menu. They also don't have an option 'don't show suggestions'.

 

Quick Access not searching Pictures folder

Summary, that last suggestion didn't work.

• I moved the pictures to another folder temporarily.

• Then I tried to remove the Pictures folder with option one at Add or Remove Folders from This PC in Windows 10 | Windows 10 Tutorials. Even after rebooting, the Pictures folder remained.
• So I tried using option two. Same thing: reboot >> Pictures folder still there.

• Since there were no troubleshooting steps for this scenario, just for the heck of it, I ran through the restore steps. Copied some pictures into the Pictures folder, ran a Quick Access search and initial problem remains: Searching all of QA doesn't find any files in Pictures folder, running search on just the Pictures folder does. I want to run a global search and find matching files in any/all of the Documents, Music, Videos, and Pictures folders.

That article dates from 2015 and I'm guessing is out of date. I hope it didn't create potential future problems in my registry.

Bottom line: I'm still looking for a fix.