How to disable Search History in Windows 10? – Greater Privacy

You should know that when you use a Microsoft operating system we have the option of resorting to multiple functions that it offers us, one of which is to be able to search and locate the files ordered in Windows 10 folders through the dialog box. search in file explorer. Although this turns out to be something useful, because it is also a very common error and that is that the folders that Windows itself stores by default also appear.

To avoid this type of risk and therefore privacy issues is ideal to delete history Search on computers that are not personal. Considering this, Windows 10 allows you to eliminate this information in a very easy way, without leaving traces of your search.

What are the steps to disable search history?

When we enter a computer’s browser, it will show us suggestions in the search box related to the documents and information that are stored on the computer. But if you share the computer with others, it may be uncomfortable to find other people’s files, to avoid these setbacks we can disable the search history.

For this, the first thing that is recommended to do is a backup in case something fails, you can recover all the information without problems. We also have to note that each version of Windows 10 It is different, so it is important to know which one is yours to carry out the execution correctly.

What paths can be used to disable search history?

You should know, there are two ways to prevent these suggestions and all browser history is displayedIt will depend on the version you have to apply the changes, if you have Windows 10 Home, for example, you will not be able to make the change with the group policies.

Using the registry editor

One of the fastest and most effective ways to power the program where we can delete the search history in Windows 10 are the following:

• Press the ‘Windows key and the R key’
• To access the registry editor just type in box the word regedit and hit Enter.
• You must navigate to the registry key; -HKEY_CURRENT_USERN-SoftwareN-PoliciesNMicrosoftWindowsN-Explorer
• Right-click on the Explore folder
• Click new and in Value choose DWORD (32-bit).
• Rename the DWORD to DisableSearchBoxSuggestions and hit Enter
• Then press click twice and change the value to 10: 1 to disable
• Finally, click OK and restart the computer for the changes to take effect.

With the group policy editor

• Press the key Windows and at the same time the R key.
• In the box write gpedit.msc and click OK
• Choose the following route: Access cUser Configuration, then Administrative Templates, Windows Components, and finally File Explorer
• There we must locate a policy called “Disable the display of recent search entries in the search box of the File Browser”
• Click twice on it and choose Enabled in the drop-down window
• Ends with Apply and Accept for the changes to take effect.

How is search history deleted only from Google?

If what you want to eliminate is your Google searches, the procedure is also very simple and does not require a programmer to do it. Protect your privacy performing these steps when you access an account that is not yours.

• The first thing you should do is enter Chrome.
• Locate the three dots located in the upper right corner and click
• On the menu choose History and again press click
• Check each box with the searches you want to suppress
• Then click Delete at the top right
• Finally, confirm by clicking Remove

How do you delete file activity history in Windows 10?

If we do not want other people to know the active history of our files, that is, when they have been modified, date of creation, how many times they have been opened, and so on; it is better that you follow the following steps to take care of your privacy.

Windows also informs when opening a folder, all the files that we have used recently. If we do not want this to happen, we must do the following:

• Enter a folder
• Right-click on Quick Links, arranged in the list on the left side of the screen
• We select in the Options menu
• We distill the option that says Show recently used files and also the option Show frequently used folders
• Then click on Clear File Explorer History
• Click on Apply and Accept

To delete the history in the start menu, that is, when we open the menu the last files that we have opened are not shown we must:

• Click Start
• Press on the Settings gear
• Personalization
• Then in the left menu we press Start
• There we can disable the suggestions occasionally at startup and show items recently Open in the shortcut list, taskbar, and shortcuts.

And finally, to completely delete all the history and protect your privacy as much as possible, you must access the setup menu, Privacy and then Activity history, we began to uncheck the following options: store my activity history on this computer and send my activity history to Microsoft.

Finally we deactivate Show the activities of these accounts (all the users who are on your team will appear). Below you will find Manage my Microsoft account activity data

Completely delete the history, enter Settings and in the search bar write Permissions and history and select Permissions and search history, we deactivate the history and press the button that says Clear the search history of the device. And so the computer is completely clean of all our history.