Turn off storage and display of search history

Supported OS tags: Windows8

This policy setting prevents search queries from being stored in the registry. If you enable this policy setting, search suggestions based on previous searches won't appear in the search pane. Search suggestions provided by apps or by Windows based on local content will still appear. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, users will get search suggestions based on previous searches in the search pane.

This policy has no additional user input fields.

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  Add primary intranet search location

  Microsoft Windows XP, or Windows Server 2003 with Windows Search version 3.01 or later
• Computer
  Add secondary intranet search locations

  Microsoft Windows XP, or Windows Server 2003 with Windows Search version 3.01 or later
• Computer
  Allow Cloud Search

  At least Windows Server 2016, Windows 10
• Computer
  Allow Cortana

  At least Windows Server 2016, Windows 10
• Computer
  Allow Cortana above lock screen

  At least Windows Server 2016, Windows 10
• Computer
  Allow Cortana Page in OOBE on an AAD account

  At least Windows Server 2016, Windows 10
• Computer
  Allow indexing of encrypted files

  Microsoft Windows Vista, or any version of Windows with Windows Search 4.0 or later
• Computer
  Allow search and Cortana to use location

  At least Windows Server 2016, Windows 10
• Computer
  Allow search highlights

  At least Windows Server 2016, Windows 10
• Computer
  Allow use of diacritics

  Microsoft Windows Vista, or any version of Windows with Windows Search 3.01 or later
• Computer
  Always use automatic language detection when indexing content and properties

  Microsoft Windows 8 or later
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  Configures search on the taskbar

  At least Windows 11