How to disable win7 search history

  
                

In win7's powerful search function, the middle will leave a search record after the search, which is still relatively unsafe for personal privacy. Therefore, it is best not to leave a search record after searching to avoid privacy being discovered.
Viewing Search History

Deleting Search History

There is no setting for clearing search records in Explorer's search window, there are no related options in the control panel, sometimes using optimization software. Can not delete, then how to delete the search record?

Still need to operate in the registry, enter "ldedit" in the search bar of the start menu, enter the registry, and then find the following key values: HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerWordWheelQuery, delete the right sub-item except the one named default. If you are afraid of deleting the error, you can first select the “Export” function in the upper toolbar to back up the registry. If there is any problem, you can restore it.
Deleting Registry Related Items

Retaining Search Records by Group Policy

Of course, to completely eliminate the search records, we still need to make some restrictions in Group Policy, after all It is too much trouble to enter the registry.

Step 1: Press [Win+R] to open the running window (or directly in the “Search” box) and enter gpedit.msc and press Enter to open the Group Policy Settings window.
Forbidden to save records in Group Policy

Step 2: Open “User Configuration & Rarr; Administrative Templates & Rarr; Windows Components & Rarr; Windows Explorer & rdquo; Select "Windows Resources" in the right pane In the manager search box, close the display of the most recent search item. Double-click the item to open the properties window, select “enabled", and finally click “OK> to enable the function, so that you will not The search history will be saved automatically.

Note: How to improve the search speed

Adding the hard disk partition to the index will greatly improve the search speed, although the index will be slower when indexing for the first time, but after the index is completed, Searching for a file is basically a matter of one second. Detailed settings can be made in the "Index Options" tab of the Control Panel.

Setting File Index

In Windows, many settings can be modified in Group Policy. Friends who are interested in researching Windows can look at various options and settings in Group Policy. Harvest must not be in fact, the group policy and the registry are related, the system registry saves the database of system software and application software configuration, and with the increasing functionality of Windows, the configuration items in the registry are getting more and more Many, many configurations can be customized, but these configurations are distributed in all corners of the registry. If it is manually configured, it is very troublesome. The group policy integrates the important configuration functions of the system into various configuration modules for users to use directly, so as to facilitate the purpose of managing the computer.

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