Windows 10: how to change the win 10 search bar default web browser

hi i was playing about with the new search bar located on task bar for windows 10 and i cam across something odd i search for something on the bar and then a menu popped up asking me what i wanted to search through (firefox, google chrome, edge). when it popped up i didnt think much about so i closed but now i want to change something on it and i dont have a clue how to trigger it again. i want to make it so that when i search it goes through google chrome. if anybody finds a way to trigger the menu please let me know *Wink

thank you

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I want to change my app to open with google chrome not IE

Hey there, Linc3

Welcome to the Microsoft Community forums.

You will need to change the default web browser on your device. To do this, please:

Click into search bar/Cortana on the Taskbar - next to start,

Search/enter Default App Settings

Select Default App Settings in the search results Cortana has displayed for you,

Then selecting Web and select Microsoft Edge or the default web browser,

and on the pop up window select Google Chrome.

Please let me know how this works.

Regards,

 

I tried to make GOOGLE my default browser.

You seem to be confusing several different things. Can you explain more details? What are you trying to do?

• Change your default web browser program
  
  A web browser is a program like Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, or Microsoft Edge. They are programs that let you go to web pages.
  
• Change your default homepage in your browser.
  
  Your homepage is the first page you see when you first open up your browser.
  
• Change your default search engine.
  
  The default search engine is what search engine gets used if you type a search phrase into your address bar, such as "deliver flowers in austin".

Let me know which one you're trying to do and I'll tell you exactly how to do it.

 

Try this

Go to Settings and search for Default
Click the one for Set Default Apps

In this page scroll down until you see Web Browser and then change this to Chrome

This should then default to opening web results in Chrome

 

thanks it opens with chrome now, but sorry to be a pain is there a way to make it open no searching with bing

 

I don't think you can change that

The search is tied into Cortana which is specifically set to use Bing

It's similar to the 'OK Google' on Android which is only set to use Google Search

 

Yeah Bing is built into W10. As it stands we're stuck with it.

 

I have set my default search engine in all my web browsers to Google. I prefer Google to Bing.

 

The OP is talking about turning off Bing results in Search.

 

also another thing why cant i turn on the cortana feature it says its not available in my region then when i click why? it say its available in the uk where i live, but then on the other page it says not in this region