Windows 10 search borked by server side issues, opens can of worms about offline functions linked to cloud

[JankyJeff]

Evidently some alleged server side issues at MS broke the ability of many users to be able to do local searches on their machines.

 

Much ado was (andis still) being made, and a regedit level tweak is required for some users to get functionality back:

 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2020/02/06/windows-10-warning-serious-failure-provokes-questions-and-anger/#713a70746a52

[WkdPaul]

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[Master Disaster]

Holy smokes, so this is why I can't search for anything on either my laptop or desktop.

[TrainFan475]

I didn't have any problems with search.

[TempestCatto]

I never have any issues thanks to the enterprise edition

[kris44dad]

A Forbes article is stating that Windows 10 needs Microsoft server support to search for files on my local machine.

 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2020/02/08/windows-10-warning-serious-failure-provokes-questions-and-anger/#47b49bd37169

 

Now Linus knows why search is so bad.   I can see a lot of third party search software being written, because of this.

[Spotty]

12 minutes ago, kris44dad said:

A Forbes is stating that Windows 10 needs Microsoft server support to search for files on my local machine.

> Merged with the existing discussion.

[mr moose]

Damn it, I just wrote up a post about potential causes with some of the features in windows, then spotty merged the threads right as I was posting and it disappeared.

 

 

[mr moose]

Windows has some features that allow you to link devices so you can share documents and files. It also shares your search history across devices and uses bing for that.  If this is interfering with the search function due to a borked update then it makes perfect sense that local searches would fail.  They could be trying to access other devices across the net that don't exist. 

[Spotty]

14 minutes ago, mr moose said:

Damn it, I just wrote up a post about potential causes with some of the features in windows, then spotty merged the threads right as I was posting and it disappeared.

Sorry!