25H2 - Microsoft Store recommendations in search


garlin said:
Random question: Everyone who has Store app results, do you live in the EU or outside of it?
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I'm not from the EU.
I saw on YouTube that they have some kind of extra tab in their privacy settings, but I don't have it.
 

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FrancoDT said:
I'm in US, Nevada and had all kinds of ads and web content until I did the reg tweak I posted. Now the Start Menu search screen stays clean just showing recent apps.
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Sorry just to recap do you have the new start menu too? As it's starting to seem like that's connected
 

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orzplay said:
Sorry just to recap do you have the new start menu too? As it's starting to seem like that's connected
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Yup, been running it since it first appeared full of bugs in 24H2
 

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FrancoDT said:
Yup, been running it since it first appeared full of bugs in 24H2
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You probably already mentioned earlier, sorry it's hard to keep track!

Ok well that's great info, thanks for sharing. SO FAR... it kind of seems like this is directly connected to the new start menu - and unless you have the new Start Menu... you can't turn this rubbish off. Which is probably something Dacrone has already mentioned too.
 

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orzplay said:
You probably already mentioned earlier, sorry it's hard to keep track!

Ok well that's great info, thanks for sharing. SO FAR... it kind of seems like this is directly connected to the new start menu - and unless you have the new Start Menu... you can't turn this rubbish off. Which is probably something Dacrone has already mentioned too.
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The reg tweak turned it off on three of my machines though with the new Start menu. At least where I'm at it did, don't know why you guys are having issues turning it off.
 

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FrancoDT said:
The reg tweak turned it off on three of my machines though with the new Start menu. At least where I'm at it did, don't know why you guys are having issues turning it off.
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That's really weird.

It's possible that those reg tweaks only work IF you have the new start menu maybe? Seeing as this is a new thing with 25H2. And in all other cases, those tweaks just do what they've always done?

For clarity, what were those 3 tweaks again exactly? As there's several that have been mentioned so far
 

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orzplay said:
That's really weird.

It's possible that those reg tweaks only work IF you have the new start menu maybe? Seeing as this is a new thing with 25H2. And in all other cases, those tweaks just do what they've always done?

For clarity, what were those 3 tweaks again exactly? As there's several that have been mentioned so far
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This is what I used:

Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows

Go to or create a new key (aka folder) called Explorer (if missing) and navigate to it.

Create a new DWORD (32-bit) registry key and name it DisableSearchBoxSuggestions

Double-click on DisableSearchBoxSuggestions to edit it and set the Value data field to 1 and click OK then reboot.
 

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FrancoDT said:
This is what I used:

Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows

Go to or create a new key (aka folder) called Explorer (if missing) and navigate to it.

Create a new DWORD (32-bit) registry key and name it DisableSearchBoxSuggestions

Double-click on DisableSearchBoxSuggestions to edit it and set the Value data field to 1 and click OK then reboot.
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Much obliged. Yeah that's already set for me, so I guess I just have to wait and hope that once the new start menu comes in for me, it fixes itself....
 

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orzplay said:
Much obliged. Yeah that's already set for me, so I guess I just have to wait and hope that once the new start menu comes in for me, it fixes itself....
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Don't know if you use Vivetool but you can easily enable the new Start Menu with the vivetool codes.
 

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FrancoDT said:
Don't know if you use Vivetool but you can easily enable the new Start Menu with the vivetool codes.
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I don't, I guess I could use it, but if the new menu isn't far away, maybe I'll just wait.
 

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Hello everyone, I'm new here and I am very interested in joining due to this specific case.
This 'Store suggestions' has been reported by Neowin, WindowsLatest, etc back in 7-8 May 2025.
So I am not sure if this is due to recent realisation, the 25h2 ekb, or the 26x00.6725 update. I got this on my PC too.
For a few years, since Windows 10 v2004 I already disabled online / web search via gpedit.

So here are what I found so far.
Those suggestions does not always show up.

When it shows up, it will suggest any app that is not installed on your computer.

Certain trigger words like zip, store, vlc, gramm ('grammarly'), hw, twi (Twitter), fli sim (I do have Flight Simulator 2020, Start suggests FS2024) will make those suggestions appear.

However longer keywords like when I look for documents or movies do not cause Store suggetions to appear.

Anyways, those store suggestions are showing up even after I went offline (detailed preview are not showing when offline). It's as if the whole app catalogue has been integrated to Start.
Going offline, then logging out and logging back in won't clear these suggestions.
Going offline and restarting the PC also does not work.

However, I do have a habit of going offline before I shut down my PC, and sometimes after a few days of not using Windows 11, when I came back those suggestions are gone until I went online again.

I tried looking for any related gpo and scheduled tasks, but I can't find any. No settings to disable too.
 
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gavin_ch said:
Hello everyone, I'm new here and I am very interested in joining due to this specific case.
This 'Store suggestions' has been reported by Neowin, WindowsLatest, etc back in 7-8 May 2025.
So I am not sure if this is due to recent realisation, the 25h2 ekb, or the 26x00.6725 update. I got this on my PC too.
For a few years, since Windows 10 v2004 I already disabled online / web search via gpedit.

So here are what I found so far.
Those suggestions does not always show up.

When it shows up, it will suggest any app that is not installed on your computer.

Certain trigger words like zip, store, vlc, gramm ('grammarly'), hw, twi (Twitter), fli sim (I do have Flight Simulator 2020, Start suggests FS2024) will make those suggestions appear.

However longer keywords like when I look for documents or movies do not cause Store suggetions to appear.

Anyways, those store suggestions are showing up even after I went offline (detailed preview are not showing when offline). It's as if the whole app catalogue has been integrated to Start.
Going offline, then logging out and logging back in won't clear these suggestions.
Going offline and restarting the PC also does not work.

However, I do have a habit of going offline before I shut down my PC, and sometimes after a few days of not using Windows 11, when I came back those suggestions are gone until I went online again.

I tried looking for any related gpo and scheduled tasks, but I can't find any. No settings to disable too.
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Damn, now here is some deep insight.

And so do you have the new start menu too?
 

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FrancoDT said:
This is what I used:

Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows

Go to or create a new key (aka folder) called Explorer (if missing) and navigate to it.

Create a new DWORD (32-bit) registry key and name it DisableSearchBoxSuggestions

Double-click on DisableSearchBoxSuggestions to edit it and set the Value data field to 1 and click OK then reboot.
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I haven't applied this tweak. The only tweak I have under this registry key is unrelated to the Start menu, it's the one from this tutorial: Enable or Disable Open with when New App Installed in Windows 11

BTW, I don't know if it makes any difference but here are my Search related settings:

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garlin said:
Random question: Everyone who has Store app results, do you live in the EU or outside of it?
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I have it on the official version of Windows.
From birthplace of wars ✌️
 

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can very easily enable it by changing your region to EU (i tested with Ireland). showed up as expected upon booting back up. no reinstall necessary.
 

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Thankfully, this isn't as bad as it sounds as generally, apps updating is a good thing.

It's unrelated to this specific issue though, but it's a good find and thanks for sharing
 

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