I personally turn off the actual bar because I have a lot of pinned icons and I&#x27;m already used to hitting the Windows key to type a search query anyway.<p>But at least as far as regular old Win-key search, you can definitely change a setting to only include local results.  I tend to do it simply because I&#x27;m in the habit of typing to search local files in the Windows&#x2F;Start menu and doing web searches via the browser.  Web results in my Start&#x2F;Win searches would just clutter up results so I&#x27;ve been disabling them since Win8.<p>Not sure if this extends to the search bar in the taskbar but I&#x27;m reasonably sure they&#x27;re the same thing with a different location&#x2F;interface.  I&#x27;ll have to enable the search bar to check for sure though.