On: Windows 10 phones home when you search your start menu, even with Bing disabled

[ikeboy]

Thanks!

Typing

> New-NetFirewallRule -DisplayName "Search" -Direction Outbound -Action Block -Profile "Domain, Private, Public" -Program "C:\Windows\SystemApps\Microsoft.Windows.Cortana_cw5n1h2txyewy\SearchUI.exe"

in elevated Powershell should work.

[blackbeard → ikeboy]

Please note that the manifest id above (cw5n1h2txyewy) may change if they update the app rendering the rule invalid.

[ikeboy → blackbeard]

That looks to be a publisher id in use since Windows 8.

[blackbeard → ikeboy]

I'm not sure it is universally consistent with that. I saw it change for a Metro app in Windows 8.1.