{"id":435,"date":"2017-12-27T17:20:54","date_gmt":"2017-12-27T17:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/info.greatis.com\/guide\/?p=435"},"modified":"2017-12-27T17:20:54","modified_gmt":"2017-12-27T17:20:54","slug":"disable-search-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/info.greatis.com\/guide\/windows10\/disable-search-history\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Disable Search History in Windows 10 File Explorer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The most popular way to search is the search built into File Explorer. There is a special text box in the top right corner of the app&#8217;s window which you can use to perform a search quickly. Every time you search for some file name pattern or condition, File Explorer saves it in the history. Here is how to disable the search history.<\/p>\n<h3>Here is How to Disable Search History in Windows 10 File Explorer:<\/h3>\n<div class=\"w10steps\">\n<ul>\n<li>STEP 1: At first, open the <b>Registry Editor<\/b>. To do so, just press Win+R, type <b>regedit.exe<\/b> and press OK.<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/info.greatis.com\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/11\/windows-10-open-registry-editor.png\" alt=\"windows-10-open-registry-editor\" class=\"responsive-img\" \/><\/li>\n<li>STEP 2: Then go to the Registry key <b><i>HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Policies\\Microsoft\\Windows\\Explorer<\/i><\/b>. If you do not have such a key, then just create it.<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/info.greatis.com\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/12\/windows-10-find-Explorer-registry-key.png\" alt=\"windows-10-find-Explorer-registry-key\" class=\"responsive-img\" \/><\/li>\n<li>STEP 3: After that, create a new 32-bit DWORD value <b>DisableSearchBoxSuggestions<\/b>. Set it to 1 to disable the <b>search history<\/b> in File Explorer.<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/info.greatis.com\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/12\/windows-10-set-DisableSearchBoxSuggestions-key.png\" alt=\"Here is How to Disable Search History in Windows 10 File Explorer\" class=\"responsive-img\" \/><\/li>\n<li>STEP 4: At last, sign out and sign in again to your user account to make the changes take effect.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is How to Disable Search History in Windows 10 File Explorer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How to Disable Search History in Windows 10 File Explorer - Windows Tips, tricks, Hacks and Tweaks<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Here is How to Disable Search History in Windows 10 File Explorer\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/info.greatis.com\/guide\/windows10\/disable-search-history\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How to Disable Search History in Windows 10 File Explorer - 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