I am getting annoyed at this ................

davidhk said:

In case it was misunderstood. I can and already have gone to Internet Explorer > Tools > Internet options > General tab > Home page > change it to www.google.ca> Apply/OK....
My "beef" is not able to Remove Bing from the Search providers list.

No, it is you that have misunderstood. You cannot remove Bing as a search provider until you set something else as the default provider - and you can't do that from the 'Find more search providers...' link because it points to the wrong address. Setting Google as your home page is not the same as setting it as a search provider.

You can set Google as a search provider if you manually type in this address into IE https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/iegallery

Reset IE to default settings and start the process all over and see what happens.

davidhk said:

I knew that. The catch is I can NOT select another search provider. I got 404 Server Error.

Are you using an ad blocker or anti tracking?
Try turning that stuff off temporarily then.

Bree said:

No, it is you that have misunderstood. You cannot remove Bing as a search provider until you set something else as the default provider - and you can't do that from the 'Find more search providers...' link because it points to the wrong address.

You can set Google as a search provider if you manually type in this address into IE https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/iegallery

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This is another perfect example of why I don't use IE or Edge.......MS makes it so convoluted to add/remove anything from any part of the system. If there was a way to completely uninstall both I would.

I'll stick with Firefox as default browser and Chrome as my backup.

It's not hard at all.

Cliff S said:

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Quite, but the point you made in that post was apparently overlooked.

davidhk said:

To Bree :
quote : You can set Google as a search provider if you manually type in this address into IE https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/iegallery

I never had to do that,I used to click the Find more search providers and it would lead to the list for search providers.
Apparently it has been changed since the last time I made such a switch. But you are right.
Now Bing (YUK!) is removed. Google is the lone and default search provider.

David, that is the same URL you are sent to when you click 'Find more search providers'. I'm not sure why you are getting the 404. It worked fine on my ie.