Any way to remove the search bar on my task bar W10?

Factual Questions
1

After an unplanned update from Microsoft (while i was asleep) I got that annoying search bar on my taskbar back. I havent seen it for years, but now i got it back. Its even got an ugly profile pick next to it :frowning: Is there a quick way to remove it?

I tried to right click on it to check if there was any options to remove there, but my windows knowledge has dwindled, and i was not able to immediately find something obvious to click there.

Any ideas will be helpful.

Thanks, Logs.

2

Right click on the task bar, click on Search, and uncheck Show Search Bar.

3

Thank you, worked!

4

I just attempted to remove it but somehow in the search pull-down it wouldn’t let me uncheck the “show search box” option.

5

You need to click on “Hidden”.
You either select “Hidden” or “Show search box”, rather than selecting and un-selecting each one.
It’s very confusing and non intuitive. (ie crap)

6

Got it, thanks. :+1: