Latest Windows 10 update breaks all searches including local files when their servers are down.

[NightShade]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/gordon...re-provokes-questions-and-anger/#79b625876a52

Basically the gist of it is that if you use the Windows built in search in the taskbar or Cortana if their servers go down searches for local files which should be fine are killed... It's almost as if they are running the search results for your computer through their servers.

Anyway if you are effected the fix is a pain but doable if you copy and paste.

• Run Regedit.exe
• Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Search
• Look for ‘BingSearchEnabled’, if you don't see it you will need to create it (right-click in a blank area, pick ‘New DWORD’ 32 bit. Type in ‘BingSearchEnabled’
• Open BingSearchEnabled, set it to 0, press OK.
• Look for ‘CortanaConsent’, again create it if you don’t have it using the method above. Also set it to 0.
• Reboot.

And if you want to kill Cortana as well as a web search from the taskbar this is also a fix for that which IMHO isn't a bad thing since if they are enabled you ARE sending your query every time you search for a file on your computer.

 

[BobbyV]

Great. I'm sure we'll have tons of users complaining at some point.

 

[Profreedomokie]

The automatic updates suck. Almost every time my computer does one it changes something on my it. It did an update two nights ago and now my scanner won't work. I get a 5.202.54 code now when I try to scan something.

 

[KOPBET]

Geez, of all the things to ruffle the panties...

Cortana gets turned off right off the bat, and other default settings are changed.

 

[BobbyV]

The automatic updates suck. Almost every time my computer does one it changes something on my it. It did an update two nights ago and now my scanner won't work. I get a 5.202.54 code now when I try to scan something.

These stupid Windows 10 version updates are ridiculous . . . I miss Windows NT.