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I'm not sure but I've been using ShutUp10 for years now and it's super reliable.

It's one of the only solutions I've seen that disables the automatic Bing based internet search feature when you use Win+S to search your system.

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I've always used WinAeroTweaker. I like it more than all these other ones because for each tweak it does it also gives you a way to manually enable or disable the tweak in the registry or in the group policy editor. Windows 10 2004 seems to have disabled the ability to disable web search on anything other than windows 10 enterprise though sadly. Apparently it was always supposed to be that way: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/client-management/g...

I think I've disabled search on Pro edition here. It just required a registry edit[0] (shutup isn't updated for 2004 yet AFAIK). On my machine it prevents internet searches from appearing.

The only concern is I don't know if it hides it while still being run in the background, or if it completely blocks the search from happening in the first place.

Kind of sad that end users even need to think about this sort of thing. It should be painfully obvious on how to disable such an invasive feature.

[0]: https://superuser.com/a/1531112

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