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V-260465CAT II — Medium severitySV-260465r960963_rule

Visual Search must be disabled.

Rule version EDGE-00-000065 · STIG v2 · 2026-02-25

Discussion

Visual Search allows for quick exploration of more related content about entities in an image.

If this policy is enabled or not configured, Visual Search will be enabled via image hover, context menu, and search in Sidebar.

If this policy is disabled, Visual Search will be disabled and more information about images will not be available via hover, context menu, and search in Sidebar.

Check

Verify the policy value for "Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/Microsoft Edge/Visual search enabled" is set to "Disabled".

Use the Windows Registry Editor to navigate to the following key: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge

If the value for "VisualSearchEnabled" is not set to "REG_DWORD = 0", this is a finding.

Fix

Set the policy value for "Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/Microsoft Edge/Visual search enabled" to "Disabled".

Identifiers

Group ID
V-260465
Group title
SRG-APP-000141
Rule ID
SV-260465r960963_rule
Check ID
C-64194r951017_chk
Fix ID
F-64102r951018_fix