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10 minutes ago, PixelHamster said:

After installing the latest security patches and rebooting my system, windows decided to stop showing search results.

It looks like it got stuck in some loop and uses around 30-50% cpu all the time.
Below is more info:

 

Build info 1903: 18362.329 (W10 Home x64)
I've tried rebuilding my index and changed it's location aswell but no luck.
also restarted the service, my pc and disabled windows defender

 

 

 

 

 

The reason : 

 

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4512941/windows-10-update-kb4512941

 

the workaround: 

 

Open up Regedit with administrator priviliges, go to HKEY_CuRRENT_USER, open it up, there open up Software, inside then open Microsoft, there Windows, there CurrentVersion, there Search.

 

On the right side are several entries, change the following ones: 

 

„AllowCortana“ = dword:00000000
„BingSearchEnabled“ = dword:00000001
„„CortanaConsent“ = dword:00000000

 

Then reboot and all should be back to "usual" again... 

 

The real ugly truth about this issue... it came with the recent windwos 10 update and was known to exist way before they started the rollout.

 

Quality Control seems to be lost in the industry... MS, NVIDIA, etc... 

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After installing the latest security patches and rebooting my system, windows decided to stop showing search results.

It looks like it got stuck in some loop and uses around 30-50% cpu all the time.
Below is more info:

 

Build info 1903: 18362.329 (W10 Home x64)
I've tried rebuilding my index and changed it's location aswell but no luck.
also restarted the service, my pc and disabled windows defender

 

 

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10 minutes ago, PixelHamster said:

After installing the latest security patches and rebooting my system, windows decided to stop showing search results.

It looks like it got stuck in some loop and uses around 30-50% cpu all the time.
Below is more info:

 

Build info 1903: 18362.329 (W10 Home x64)
I've tried rebuilding my index and changed it's location aswell but no luck.
also restarted the service, my pc and disabled windows defender

 

 

 

 

 

The reason : 

 

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4512941/windows-10-update-kb4512941

 

the workaround: 

 

Open up Regedit with administrator priviliges, go to HKEY_CuRRENT_USER, open it up, there open up Software, inside then open Microsoft, there Windows, there CurrentVersion, there Search.

 

On the right side are several entries, change the following ones: 

 

„AllowCortana“ = dword:00000000
„BingSearchEnabled“ = dword:00000001
„„CortanaConsent“ = dword:00000000

 

Then reboot and all should be back to "usual" again... 

 

The real ugly truth about this issue... it came with the recent windwos 10 update and was known to exist way before they started the rollout.

 

Quality Control seems to be lost in the industry... MS, NVIDIA, etc... 

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Anghammarad : Asrock Taichi x570, AMD Ryzen 7 5800X @4900 MHz. 32 GB DDR4 3600, some NVME SSDs, Gainward Phoenix RTX 3070TI

 

System 2 "Igluna" AsRock Fatal1ty Z77 Pro, Core I5 3570k @4300, 16 GB Ram DDR3 2133, some SSD, and a 2 TB HDD each, Gainward Phantom 760GTX.

System 3 "Inskah" AsRock Fatal1ty Z77 Pro, Core I5 3570k @4300, 16 GB Ram DDR3 2133, some SSD, and a 2 TB HDD each, Gainward Phantom 760GTX.

 

On the Road: Acer Aspire 5 Model A515-51G-54FD, Intel Core i5 7200U, 8 GB DDR4 Ram, 120 GB SSD, 1 TB SSD, Intel CPU GFX and Nvidia MX 150, Full HD IPS display

 

Media System "Vio": Aorus Elite AX V2, Ryzen 7 5700X, 64 GB Ram DDR4 3200 Mushkin, 1 275 GB Crucial MX SSD, 1 tb Crucial MX500 SSD. IBM 5015 Megaraid, 4 Seagate Ironwolf 4TB HDD in raid 5, 4 WD RED 4 tb in another Raid 5, Gainward Phoenix GTX 1060

 

(Abit Fatal1ty FP9 IN SLI, C2Duo E8400, 6 GB Ram DDR2 800, far too less diskspace, Gainward Phantom 560 GTX broken need fixing)

 

Nostalgia: Amiga 1200, Tower Build, CPU/FPU/MMU 68EC020, 68030, 68882 @50 Mhz, 10 MByte ram (2 MB Chip, 8 MB Fast), Fast SCSI II, 2 CDRoms, 2 1 GB SCSI II IBM Harddrives, 512 MB Quantum Lightning HDD, self soldered Sync changer to attach VGA displays, WLAN

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2 hours ago, Anghammarad said:

The reason : 

 

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4512941/windows-10-update-kb4512941

 

the workaround: 

 

Open up Regedit with administrator priviliges, go to HKEY_CuRRENT_USER, open it up, there open up Software, inside then open Microsoft, there Windows, there CurrentVersion, there Search.

 

On the right side are several entries, change the following ones: 

 

„AllowCortana“ = dword:00000000
„BingSearchEnabled“ = dword:00000001
„„CortanaConsent“ = dword:00000000

 

Then reboot and all should be back to "usual" again... 

 

The real ugly truth about this issue... it came with the recent windwos 10 update and was known to exist way before they started the rollout.

 

Quality Control seems to be lost in the industry... MS, NVIDIA, etc... 

❤️ Thanks this fixed my issue, I didn't have the AllowCortana entry so I added it myself btw. I've had this problem on other devices aswel :/
They keep pushing out bugs to non-testers :|

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