On Sat, 2 Jun 2018 18:31:53 -0000 (UTC), Arlen Holder wrote:

I just installed Windows 10 1803.

I like Cortana for finding things on my computer.
But I never want Cortana to run a Bing web search.

I don't want to use Cortana for finding things on the net.

For that, I can use my own browser set to my choice of search engine.

How do I turn off Cortana's connection to Bing on the net?
At the same time keeping Cortana's searches on my computer?

While I may try again, when I turned off Cortana's connection to Bing, it
bricked my system such that it wouldn't boot.

I had to re-install Windows and Ubuntu dual boot, which caused a different
set up completely unrelated problems since I moved to the newer Ubuntu
18.04 from 17.10 (which handled the dual-boot differently).

Gory details he
Why doesn't Ubuntu 18.04 ask to install next to Windows 10 Pro single HDD
as a dual boot?
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!to...ux/D7E7FQ1NLNk[1-25]

Where the main point is that I'm going to temporarily give up on trying to
disable Cortana's connection to Bing (even though Wolf K. seems to be the
only one who knows the answer to everything as he implied in this thread)
because Microsoft seems to have made it just too dangerous to do.