The introduction of win+"stub" in Win8 was pretty great, but with Win10 this has been polluted by "search the web for my program" appearing just a fraction of a second before the program itself. Sometimes it even brings up the installer .exe that's still sitting in my downloads folder before it brings up the program itself.

There's a registry setting you can change that completely disables web results. Aside from hiding results your didn't want in the first place, it speeds up start menu search a bit. I'd need to Google it so I'll leave that for you to do yourself if you're interested.

Obviously that's not very helpful to the vast majority of users, who are mostly not techy enough to touch their registry.

That's amazing. Thankyou SO much for that, I didn't even think that would be an option. You've been replied to with a non-regedit solution,

This is a good point. I turn this off. I think this covers it

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/how-to...

You LEGEND, thanks very much for that!

I appreciate the kudos, but it really was a simple search and no skin off my nose :)

Start menu search was introduced in Windows Vista.

Ah, I skipped that one. Thanks for the correction.