Remove Microsoft Edge Search Bar from Desktop

Recently Microsoft in its latest update has pushed an new feature in Windows OS, which is Microsoft Edge Desktop Search Bar. The Microsoft Edge Search Bar on Desktop allows the user to have a quick search of any query on internet without opening the browser.

The Microsoft Edge Search Bar placed on the desktop in Windows is a very helpful tool to few users, but few of them might find it annoying. So to help those set of users here is the quick tutorial on how to remove search bar from Desktop in Windows 10 or Windows 11.

Remove Microsoft Edge Search Bar from Desktop

To remove the Microsoft Edge Desktop Search Bar click on those three dots

From the displayed options click on the Close Search Bar

This will present a pop-up menu asking you whether Do you want to close the search bar? If you select Yes, Close it will close the search bar for the moment but when you restart your PC or laptop it will again appear, so if you want to close it permanently from appearing on your desktop screen just tick mark on the Turn off auto-launch and than click on the Yes, close button

This will permanently remove the Microsoft Edge Desktop Search Bar from your Windows desktop and even if you restart your PC the Microsoft Edge Desktop Search Bar won’t appear again.

But permanently removing the Microsoft Edge Desktop Search Bar doesn’t mean you cannot enable it again. Yes, if you wish to have the search bar again in future on your desktop screen then you can enable it, below are the steps which you need to follow to enable Microsoft Edge Desktop Search Bar on Windows Desktop.

How to get Edge Search Bar on Desktop

Open the Microsoft Edge browser

Click on the three dots appearing on top right side of the browser

Under more tools option click on the launch search bar

This will instantly place the Microsoft Edge Search Bar on Desktop, but when you restart your PC or laptop the Microsoft Edge Search Bar won’t load automatically but you need perform the above step to launch it every time after every restart.

To make the Microsoft Edge Search Bar auto launch on desktop every-time even when you restart your PC or Laptop click on the three dots in the Microsoft Edge Search Bar

And select auto-launch search bar, on selecting Auto-launch search bar a tick mark will appear against it

So this means Microsoft Edge Search Bar will load every time even if you restart your PC or Laptop.