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Is it possible for me (parent/admin account) to completely disable Cortana for other users (kids/standard accounts)? ...or at least from using it to search things that are not local on the PC itself. I don't want my children gleaning all the Internet has to offer quite yet.

EDIT: @Chirag64 and @mc10 - thank you so much for your answers, but neither answer really addresses my question of "completely disable Cortana for other users (kids/standard accounts)". I do not want to disable it for me, only for my kids...
The "duplicate questions" and the one that was linked as having answers - also don't help me with this...

Eliezer
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You can achieve this via the Group Policy Editor.

Just open gpedit.msc, go to Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Windows Components -> Search.

Enable the policies called Do not allow web search and Don't search the web or display web results in Search.

See this link for more details.

Chirag Bhatia - chirag64
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Web search can be disabled via registry editor:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search

create new 32-bit DWORD value ConnectedSearchUseWeb and set it to 0

No reboot required.

Reference

[EDIT] sorry, it also not exactly correct answer, because it not per-account setting.

vanowm
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