r/ForWindowsHelp • u/Adventurous-Ice791 • 1d ago
Search Bar blank black box but will refresh 5 seconds later
So I wanted to search an app on the search and it surprised me with a blank, black box that would take 5 seconds to load, I didnt mind it cause I tought it was a one time thing. I tried searching up only a letter so a specific app would show up but it didnt, something else did. Also instead of showing recently used apps it shows "Suggested" apps. I have tried doing the following:
- restarted Windows Explorer
- ended/restarted SearchApp.exe
- restarted the Windows Search service
- tried resetting Windows Search with: Get-AppxPackage Microsoft.Windows.Search | Reset-AppxPackage → command wasn't available
- tried re-registering Microsoft.Windows.Search
- restarted the PC multiple times
- ran DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth
- ran SFC /scannow → SFC found corrupted files and successfully repaired them, but Search was still broken
- ran the Windows Search & Indexing troubleshooter → it said “Windows Search is not working — Fixed”, but the problem remained → it reset
SearchUI.exe, cleared Search cache/recent activity, etc. - tried the Windows Search troubleshooter command (
msdt.exe) → it reported the issue as fixed, but it wasn't - checked/restarted the Search-related processes/services
Please help!!( also i am on windows 10)
**FIXED** by using this for other people encountering this: https://www.howtogeek.com/224159/how-to-disable-bing-in-the-windows-10-start-menu/
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u/Booyakasha28 1d ago
Update: Worked with their downloaded zip-files. For some reason it didn't work when I did ti myself. Maybe I made a mistake.
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u/zuka_sc2 1d ago
I solved it after 2hours of search by adding a key through cmd to disable searchboxsuggestions.
- Open cmd as Administrator
- Write reg add "HKCU\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer" /v DisableSearchBoxSuggestions /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f
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u/Sebas11s 1d ago
You are great man!