I installed this piece of **** as part of the update routine a while ago and just couldn’t get rid of it for the life of me. I could disable it, but every time I did a right-clicked “search”, I ended up having to wait an age for it to load so I could redirect to the old built-in system.
Well, thankfully I discovered an article which helped. All the claims of “look at the Add/Remove Programs” list were useless as it doesn’t put itself on there, despite what Microsoft claim. Also, I’ve not seen an Update spuninst folder/file in the system root when I’ve put it on either – which means there’s no uninstall program.
The page is this one, courtesy of ARNO#. It does involve downloading a ZIP file, but I can verify that it works. I would recommend running a registry cleaning package once you’ve gone through his instructions, though. No harm in doing so just to ensure you get rid of any loose ends that might get left behind.
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