{"id":1432,"date":"2020-02-05T10:05:56","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T16:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/?p=1432"},"modified":"2020-02-05T10:05:56","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T16:05:56","slug":"windows-10-start-menu-search-blank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/2020\/02\/windows-10-start-menu-search-blank\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 10 Start Menu Search Blank"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

So my freshly-installed Windows 10 Pro N 1909 had an issue – I have gotten so used to pressing Windows Key and then typing “settings” or “control panel” or “my document name here”. Unfortunately I was greeted with a blank search box instead. Nothing loaded. Just blank. Gray even. Light gray.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I searched trusty Dr. Google for the answer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One recommendation was to remove Bing Search from showing in my search box. Fired up regedit:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HKCU\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Search\n\nAdd DWORD \"BingSearchEnabled\" =0<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Since I haven’t rebooted yet I don’t know if that will actually fix anything. But here we are anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Next I restarted the Windows Search service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Start > Run > Services.msc\nRight-click and restart Windows Search service<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
That didn’t help either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Finally I just killed the SearchUI.exe in task manager (don’t worry, it auto restarts itself).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Open Task Manager\nClick on the Details Tab\nRight-click on SearchUI.exe and select End Task<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
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So my freshly-installed Windows 10 Pro N 1909 had an issue – I have gotten so used to pressing Windows Key and then typing “settings” or “control panel” or “my document name here”. Unfortunately I was greeted with a blank search box instead. Nothing loaded. Just blank. Gray even. Light gray. So I searched trusty … Continue reading Windows 10 Start Menu Search Blank<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1433,"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432\/revisions\/1433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}