Two things in one pass because the repo copy was 162 lines behind the
deployed one already:
1. Sync repo to the currently-deployed FlatUnattendW10.xml baseline
(Java JRE 8 u441 + Java auto-update pins + Cortana/Bing/Search
disable block that had been added on-server but never committed).
2. Prune three ineffective registry entries and replace the Bing
suppression with a documented equivalent that works on both Win10
and Win11:
- DROP #32 HKLM\...\Search\CortanaEnabled=0
Undocumented at HKLM (the real key is HKCU). No effect.
- DROP #37 AllowCortanaAboveLock=0
Deprecated per AboveLock Policy CSP. Cortana app was
removed from Win11 in Canary 25967 anyway.
- REPLACE #34 BingSearchEnabled (HKLM, undocumented) with
DisableSearchBoxSuggestions=1 written into the
Default User hive so every new account inherits it.
This is the Microsoft-documented kill-switch for
Bing / web results in Start-menu search on both
Win10 and Win11.
Validated XML well-formed (xmllint + Python ET). RunSynchronous orders
remain unique and ascending after the deletions. Deployed to both PXE
servers under /srv/samba/winpeapps/{gea-engineer,gea-standard}/Deploy/
with timestamped .pre-winsearch-cleanup-* backups.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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