How to Remove Bing Chat Button from Microsoft Edge

Microsoft Edge has not received much appreciation or admiration compared to other web browser competitors like Google Chrome or Brave Browser. However, last month, Microsoft decided to raise the bar after investing billions of dollars to partner with OpenAI and introduce ChatGPT into its products, including the Microsoft Edge browser. This enabled Microsoft to integrate artificial intelligence into the browser to seamlessly improve the browsing experience. To its misfortune, not everyone was looking for it. Henceforth, many users raise the query about how to remove the Bing chat button from Microsoft Edge. This article will teach you how to do the same.

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How to Remove Bing Chat Button from Microsoft Edge

ChatGPT in particular is a language model that can generate human-like responses to text-based conversations. Introducing the Bing AI chatbot Sydney in a sidebar, the Edge Co-pilot aims to help users with two main features: Chat and Compose. The chat feature allows users to ask multiple and complex questions which the chatbot answers in a summarized manner. Compose mimics a writing assistant that generates texts, emails, articles, speeches, and a lot more. The collaboration of OpenAI and Microsoft is indeed exciting to witness how this technology evolves over time. However, still many users want to disable the Bing button for personalized reasons. Even though there is no straight way currently that lets a user disable it, let us go through some over-the-top methods that can help you in the same.

Quick Answer

To remove the Bing Chat Button from Microsoft Edge, you can follow these steps:

1. Go to Edge Settings.

2. Click on Sidebar menu.

3. Select the Discover option.

4. Toggle Off Show Discover feature.

5. Finally, relaunch the Microsoft Edge browser.

The following are the methods that can assist you if you do not want the Edge Co-pilot in the sidebar of the Microsoft Edge browser.

Method 1: Remove Side Bar from Registry Editor

The most appropriate way to disable the Bing Discover button from the Microsoft Edge browser considering that the addition of that in the sidebar not only feels bothersome but also cuts down the screen width is by using the Windows Registry Editor. Ultimately, the Registry Editor is the house of configurations, this will remove the sidebar itself.

Note: Make sure you create a backup of the Windows Registry for odd situations that terminate any of the functions in the PC and cause abnormalities. You can always revert to the backed-up stage.

1. Press Windows + R keys together to launch the Run dialog box.

2. Type regedit in the Run dialog box and click on OK.

3. Click on Yes in the UAC prompt.

4. Copy and paste the following address into the address bar.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft

5. Right-click on the Microsoft key, click on New and select Key to create a new key.

6. Name the new key as Edge.

7. Click on the Edge key. In the right pane, right-click and select New and then DWORD (32-bit) Value.

8. Name the new DWORD as HubsSidebarEnabled.

9. Now relaunch the Edge browser.

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Method 2: Use Command Prompt

In case you are not able to follow the Registry Editor procedure, do not worry. We have one more way for you to follow the steps to add a new key to the Windows Registry and remove the sidebar from the Edge browser.

Note: Make sure you create a backup of the Windows Registry for odd situations that terminate any of the functions in the PC and cause abnormalities. You can always revert to the backed-up stage.

1. Launch Command Prompt on your PC in administrator mode.

2. Click Yes when the User Account Control prompt appears.

3. Type the following command in the terminal and press Enter key.

reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge"

4. Again type the undermentioned command and press Enter key to execute it.

reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge" /v HubsSidebarEnabled /t REG_DWORD /d 00000000 /f

5. Exit out and reboot the PC.

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Method 3: Disable Bing Button Using Windows PowerShell

The PowerShell is an automation tool, a configuration management engine, script language designed by Microsoft for system administration. If you are looking for a method on how to remove the Bing chat button from Microsoft Edge, you can do that by running a command in the PowerShell terminal.

1. Press the Windows Key and search for Windows PowerShell.

2. On the right pane, click on Run as Administrator.

3. In the User Account Control pop-up, click on Yes.

4. In the Windows PowerShell terminal, type the following command. Press Enter key.

start msedge --disable-features=msUndersideButton

5. Wait until the command executes. Exit from the Windows PowerShell app.

6. Finally, launch the Microsoft Edge browser.

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Method 4: Edit Edge Shortcut

This is a temporary solution that can remove the Bing chat discover button in Microsoft Edge. However, the only lacuna being it is a setting modification, and any future update to the browser can disable the modification made and henceforth bring back the Discover AI button.

1. On the Desktop, right-click on the Microsoft Edge shortcut.

2. Choose the Properties option from the drop-down menu.

3. Click on the Target option and replace the pre-set path with the following:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge\Application\msedge.exe" --disable-features=msUndersideButton

4. Click on Apply to enable the path.

5. The prompt will ask you to provide administrator permission to change the settings. Click on Continue.

6. Click on OK to save the settings.

7. Launch the Microsoft Edge browser.

Note: There might be a chance that the above steps still did not remove the Bing Discover AI chat button. That is because of the Startup Boost that ensures Microsoft Edge keeps running in the background and hence the parameter line to edit edge shortcut did not work. To fix this, continue with the following steps.

8. Click on the ellipsis (three horizontal dots) icon at the top-right corner of the screen.

9. From the drop-down list of options, choose Settings.

10. Click on System and performance in the left pane.

11. On the right-hand side, disable the toggle for Startup boost.

12. Also, disable Continue running background extensions and apps when Microsoft Edge is closed from the toggle.

13. Close the browser and launch it again.

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With this, you were able to get rid of the AI chat button introduced by Microsoft to its web browser. Ultimately, the intent of Microsoft seems pretty clear that they want the users to experience their multi-billion dollar investment. We hope that this guide was helpful and you were able to learn about how to remove the Bing chat button from Microsoft Edge. Let us know which method worked for you the best. If you have any queries or suggestions, then feel free to drop them in the comments section below.