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NE1 know how to get rid of Bing?

NE1 know how to get rid of Bing?

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@sonhouse said
Win 10, bing comes in unbidden and I have to futz with it to get to Chrome or whatever.
I looked looked up the methods and so far no good.

The only one left is the one talking about getting rid of it in registryedit.
Haven't done that yet.
But all the instructions I did see didn't pan out, I can't find Bing anywhere in my system, in add or remove programs and the like, nothing.
I think Bing is a website, so maybe it's just a matter of changing the URL for your brower's home page in its settings.

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@kevin-eleven said
I think Bing is a website, so maybe it's just a matter of changing the URL for your brower's home page in its settings.
Bing is the name of The browser.

-VR

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@very-rusty said
Bing is the name of The browser.

-VR
I'm pretty sure Bing is a search engine and website, but not a browser per se.

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@kevin-eleven said
I'm pretty sure Bing is a search engine and website, but not a browser per se.
K-11 appears you're correct.
Microsoft Bing is a web search engine owned and operated by Microsoft. The service has its origins in Microsoft's previous search engines: MSN Search, Windows Live Search and later Live Search. Bing provides a variety of search services, including web, video, image and map search products. Wikipedia

-VR

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@very-rusty said
K-11 appears you're correct.
Microsoft Bing is a web search engine owned and operated by Microsoft. The service has its origins in Microsoft's previous search engines: MSN Search, Windows Live Search and later Live Search. Bing provides a variety of search services, including web, video, image and map search products. Wikipedia

-VR
Yes, I am absolutely correct about that.
When I wrote "I'm pretty sure" I was just downplaying how correct I was. 😉

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@kevin-eleven said
Yes, I am absolutely correct about that.
When I wrote "I'm pretty sure" I was just downplaying how correct I was. 😉
No, I am pretty sure you were second guessing yourself! 😛 😉

-VR

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@sonhouse

What have you got against Bing? His version of White Christmas is the stuff of legend.

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Give Bob Hope top billing.

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@Ghost-of-a-Duke
I should have known it would not have been taken seriously.

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@kevin-eleven said
In Edge browser:
Three dots menu (upper right corner)
Settings
Type "search engine" in the search box at upper right.
Of the results returned, click on "Address bar and search".
"Search engine used in the address bar" has a dropdown menu to the right.
"Manage search engines" will let you add one that is not already listed in that dropdown menu.
Thank you kevin.

everything went as you explained except when I opened a new tab, it still used bing.

I went back in to see if the DDG was retained. It was, so some kind of success is there.

thanks again

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not sure what these people mean by "default search engine".
it retained DuckDuckGo as my default search engine but when I open a new tab, it is BING search engine.

very frustrating. as per usual, microsoft SUCKS. trying to get away from those bastids

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got it figured out!!

Ok, if I do a search in the address bar, YES, it does a DuckDuckGo search.

better than it was. Thanks @kevin-11, you are from heaven 😍

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@divegeester
sonhouse is a hep cat, Daddy O.