How to Change SafeSearch Filter Setting in Windows 10
Search Windows and the web from the taskbar to find help, apps, files, settings—you name it. You can also get quick answers from the web—like weather, stock prices, currency conversion, and much more—and get to websites faster by using links in the preview pane.
Cortana and Search has been separated starting with Windows 10 version 1903.
In Windows Search, web previews will not automatically load web results if they may contain adult content.
SafeSearch settings allows you to change your search filter levels to Strict, Moderate, or Off. This SafeSearch setting will override your Bing SafeSearch setting when viewing the web search results.
SafeSearch Filter Level Description Strict Filter out adult text, images, and videos from my web results Moderate (default) Filter out adult images and videos, but not text from my web results Off Don't filter adult content from my web results
This tutorial will show you how to change the SafeSearch filter setting for web search results for your account in Windows 10.
Contents
- Option One: Change SafeSearch Filter Setting in Settings
- Option Two: Change SafeSearch Filter Setting using a REG file
1 Open Settings, and click/tap on the Search icon.
2 Click/tap on Permissions & History on the left side, and select (dot) the Strict, Moderate (default), or Off for the SafeSearch setting you want on the right side.
3 When finished, you can close Settings if you like.
The downloadable .reg files below will modify the DWORD value in the registry key below.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\SearchSettings
SafeSearchMode DWORD
0 = Off
1 = Moderate
2 = Strict
1 Do step 2 (strict), step 3 (moderate), or step 4 (off) below for what you would like to do.
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 5 below.
Set_SafeSearch_to_Strict.reg
Download
This is the default setting.
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 5 below.
Set_SafeSearch_to_Moderate.reg
Download
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 5 below.
Turn_off_SafeSearch.reg
Download
5 Save the .reg file to your desktop.
5 Double click/tap on the downloaded .reg file to merge it.
6 When prompted, click/tap on Run, Yes (UAC), Yes, and OK to approve the merge.
7 You could now delete the downloaded .reg file if you like.
That's it,
Shawn
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