Paint now has built-in AI image bullshit.
Death to Microsoft.
Can’t get rid of Bing web search.
Can’t get rid of recommendations in start menu.
If you can sneak open shell onto your machine I would highly recommend it. It’ll give you a classic start menu from the pre-win8 days and then you can just disable the w11 search bar.
You can disable all that by adding a reg key under HKCU somewhere (can’t remember where exactly off the top of my head). I think you should be able to write to that without admin.