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.SYNOPSIS
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If you don't like the 'Bing' Button that Edge wants to display, you can use this script to turn it off.
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.NOTE
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Ultimately, we are just setting a registry entry. You can also do this via Active Directory policies (and a couple of other ways).
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There is another, per-user rather than whole-machine, registry entry that you can set. (This is per a thread on Reddit, but I did
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not bookmark that thread and I don't have time to search for it now...)
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.LINK
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https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/samples/working-with-registry-keys?view=powershell-7.3
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.LINK
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https://devblogs.microsoft.com/scripting/update-or-add-registry-key-value-with-powershell/
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.LINK
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https://techdows.com/2023/03/disable-or-remove-bing-button-microsoft-edge.html
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#>
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#Requires -RunAsAdministrator
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$Path = "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft"
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$RegistryKeyPath = $Path + '\' + 'Edge'
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$RegistryEntryName = "HubsSidebarEnabled"
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$RegistryEntryValue = "0"
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if (test-path $RegistryKeyPath) {
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$Message = "The Registry Key '{0}' already exists." -f @($RegistryKeyPath)
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Write-Verbose -Verbose -Message $Message
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Get-ChildItem -Path $RegistryKeyPath
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}
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else {
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$Message = "The Registry Key does not exist. Creating...."
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Write-Verbose -Verbose -Message $Message
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New-Item -Path $RegistryKeyPath | Out-Null
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}
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if (Get-ItemProperty -Path $RegistryKeyPath -name $RegistryEntryName -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) {
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$Message = "The Registry Entry already exists."
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Write-Verbose -Verbose -Message $Message
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}
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else {
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$Message = "The Registry Entry does not exist. Creating...."
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Write-Verbose -Verbose -Message $Message
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New-ItemProperty -Path $RegistryKeyPath -Name $RegistryEntryName -Value $RegistryEntryValue -PropertyType 'DWORD' -Force | Out-Null
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}
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$Message = "This is the Registry Entry and its' path:"
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Write-Verbose -Verbose -Message $Message
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Get-ItemProperty HKLM:\software\Policies\Microsoft\Edge -name $RegistryEntryName
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Get-ChildItem -Path $RegistryKeyPath -Recurse
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$ValuePath = $RegistryKeyPath + '\' + $RegistryEntryName
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# Some output for the user, as a reminder of a next step...
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$Message = "You should not need to reboot the computer."
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Write-Verbose -Verbose $Message
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$Message = "You should be able to restart Edge and see the Bing Button has disappeared."
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Write-Verbose -Verbose $Message
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$Message = "If the 'Bing' button is still being shown, try pasting 'settings://policies' into the Edge address bar, press 'Enter' and then click the 'Reload Policies' button."
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Write-Verbose -Verbose $Message
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