Disable or hide Searchbox in taskbar Windows 10 version 2004

Question

_{Saturday, July 4, 2020 5:30 AM}

There are quite a lot of resources on the Internet regarding disabling or hiding the searchbox in Windows 10 taskbar but many are for earlier versions of Windows 10.

Referring to this https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/6aae9882-8ae5-4ef3-ab45-8e71a07b7118/new-search-box-in-win-10-1903-how-to-disable-or-change-to-icon-for-all-users?forum=win10itprosetup

This is to set the registry HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Search\Searchboxtaskbarmode to 0.

This method doesn't work for me on Windows 10 2004. The taskbar remains enabled and visible and is usable.

I want to achieve getting rid of all icons on the taskbar, except the Start button. I can get rid of all but this Searchbox always remains. 

If I go to HKU user's specific registry tree, at the Search\Searchboxtaskbarmode, setting it to 0, that particular user's taskbar will then not have the Searchbox. However, that is not what I want.

As I need to replicate this taskbar lockdown to thousand plus computers, applying to all non-administrators, manually doing it one by one is not feasible.

Has anyone has any success to disable or hide the Searchbox from taskbar on Windows 10 2004?

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_{Monday, July 6, 2020 4:15 AM}

Hello, You can refer this post that described how you can achieve this for current users 

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/2854-hide-show-search-box-search-icon-taskbar-windows-10-a.html

To apply for all users, you can do like this - 

reg.exe load HKEY_USERS\TempHive "C:\Users\Default\NTUSER.DAT"

REG ADD "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Search" /V SearchboxTaskbarMode /T REG_DWORD /D 0 /F
reg.exe unload HKEY_USERS\TempHive

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_{Monday, July 6, 2020 8:42 AM}

Hi,

Is there any update? Have you got a chance to verify above suggestions?

Please feel free to let us know if more assistance needed.

Thanks,

Jenny

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_{Monday, July 6, 2020 12:50 PM}

Thanks.

Like what I had mentioned, the method mentioned in the article about the registry settings doesn't work on Windows 10 2004.

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_{Tuesday, July 7, 2020 11:53 AM}

The same is working for me, How you initiating for all users. Please explain more that will help us to identify

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_{Wednesday, July 8, 2020 4:35 AM}

I had tried:

setting HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Search\Searchboxtaskbarmode to 0. This doesn't work for me. SearchBoxTaskBarMode is 32-bit Dword.

setting HKU\Default\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Search\Searchboxtaskbarmode to 0. This doesn't work for me, for existing as well as future users.

setting HKU\User UID>\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Search\Searchboxtaskbarmode to 0. This one works for the specified user.

setting HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Search\Searchboxtaskbarmode to 0. No Search key exist, so created but doesn't work.

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