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Windows 10 local search outage due to Bing integration

8 points by eknkc 7y ago

SaintGhurka 7y ago
This affected me this morning. The fix described in the article is to add/modify a registry setting - which did work in my case.
aphextim 7y ago
As always backup your registry before edits. The fix described in the article was to open up regedit as the current user. C:\Windows\System32\regedt32 Go to Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Search Right click -> New -> DWORD (32-bit) Name this BingSearchEnabled - make sure value is set to 0. Find CortanaConsent key and also check/make value set to 0. Reboot machine.
LinuxBender 7y ago
Why is Bing required to index local files?
- aphextim 7y ago
  I'm not sure why, but an article I found explained some stuff regarding search in Win 10. https://www.computerworld.com/article/3519708/has-your-win10-search-box-gone-black-does-search-even-work.html https://www.computerworld.com/article/3519708/has-your-win10... >What really sticks out for me with some of these newer Search versions, is that they use a ton of memory. Click on the Search box and it immediately consumes 120+ MB of memory on my machine. >I did a little digging around I think I figured out why … the entire search box is now a web application built with JavaScript & React. This of course means that some kind of web rendering engine is required … it’s probably Edge. >There is a lot of evidence in the JavaScript source to suggest that it was built by the Bing team. If I had to guess, I’d say that what happened here was that the desktop search experience was moved from the Windows team to the Bing web team, and they just don’t have the skills to build desktop programs with efficient C++. >And, it looks like there is a mechanism to update the JavaScript code from a remote server, without actually upgrading the Search application itself. >Maybe this also explains why the bugs with the new Windows Explorer search bar haven’t been acknowledged by the Windows team … could very well be that the Windows team doesn’t even own that code anymore! All the above is not confirmed just one person's idea.
- eknkc 7y ago
  I don't think it is. I mean, search works just fine on an offline machine (normally). Bing is used for some online results on the same panel. However now it does not show local files even if I disable the internet connection. I guess they pushed an update that screwed up the search results screen.

8 points by eknkc 7y ago

This affected me this morning. The fix described in the article is to add/modify a registry setting - which did work in my case.

aphextim 7y ago

As always backup your registry before edits. The fix described in the article was to open up regedit as the current user. C:\Windows\System32\regedt32 Go to Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Search Right click -> New -> DWORD (32-bit) Name this BingSearchEnabled - make sure value is set to 0. Find CortanaConsent key and also check/make value set to 0. Reboot machine.

LinuxBender 7y ago

Why is Bing required to index local files?

aphextim 7y ago
I'm not sure why, but an article I found explained some stuff regarding search in Win 10. https://www.computerworld.com/article/3519708/has-your-win10-search-box-gone-black-does-search-even-work.html https://www.computerworld.com/article/3519708/has-your-win10... >What really sticks out for me with some of these newer Search versions, is that they use a ton of memory. Click on the Search box and it immediately consumes 120+ MB of memory on my machine. >I did a little digging around I think I figured out why … the entire search box is now a web application built with JavaScript & React. This of course means that some kind of web rendering engine is required … it’s probably Edge. >There is a lot of evidence in the JavaScript source to suggest that it was built by the Bing team. If I had to guess, I’d say that what happened here was that the desktop search experience was moved from the Windows team to the Bing web team, and they just don’t have the skills to build desktop programs with efficient C++. >And, it looks like there is a mechanism to update the JavaScript code from a remote server, without actually upgrading the Search application itself. >Maybe this also explains why the bugs with the new Windows Explorer search bar haven’t been acknowledged by the Windows team … could very well be that the Windows team doesn’t even own that code anymore! All the above is not confirmed just one person's idea.
eknkc 7y ago
I don't think it is. I mean, search works just fine on an offline machine (normally). Bing is used for some online results on the same panel. However now it does not show local files even if I disable the internet connection. I guess they pushed an update that screwed up the search results screen.