Welcome back, in this video I’ll be showing you some possible fixes to solve the issue
of your Windows 10 search bar freezing and crashing. When you click on the start menu
or start typing in the search bar, the whole start menu might just disappear. I know this
has happened to me on a few occasions in the past and it can be frustrating. Firstly, we’re
going to check if Windows 10 is updated to the latest version. If you want, you can skip
this section for now and try the other solutions first. To check, go to settings by clicking
the settings icon in the start menu, if even that doesn’t work, you can get there by
right clicking the taskbar at the bottom, then click on taskbar settings and then home
to get to the main settings page. Click on update and security and then check for updates.
Install the latest update if there is one. If Windows detects an update but it won’t
install, I have a video on how to fix that, the link will be in the description. The next
potential fix will be to go to the task manager, you can get there by right clicking the taskbar
and selecting task manager. Find the process called Cortana, and right click on it and
select end task. Now try searching to see if that solved the problem. If it didn’t,
we’ll continue to the next fix. We’re now going to try and see if Windows can find
the problem by troubleshooting search and indexing. Go back to the main settings screen
and this time click on search. Then go to searching Windows which is in the menu on
the left. Scroll down to the bottom and select run the indexer troubleshooter. Allow this
to complete and follow any suggestions it has. If Windows didn’t find any issues,
we’ll continue with the video. We’re now going to check if the Windows search service
is running. To do this, right click on the taskbar and go to task manager again. Click
on the services tab, it should be the furthest right. Scroll down in here until you find
Windows Search, the name of the service might be WSearch but it should say Windows Search
in the description and it will be near the bottom. It should say running in the status
section. If it says stopped right click on it and select start. If it was already running,
you can try right clicking on it and selecting restart. If that didn’t help, stay in the
task manager and click on File this time in the top left. Then click on run new task.
Check the box that says create this task with administrator privileges if you can. Then
type in powershell as all one word. Click OK and a blue box should open. In here, you
need to input a specific message. I’ll leave this in the description, it starts will Get
AppXPackage. Copy and paste this in from the description of this video and hit enter. Allow
this to run, it might show a lot of text, including some in red. It may take a while
but once its done, try to search again. At this point, its recommended to restart your
PC as that might now fix the search issue. Feel free to do that now and come back to
the video, or you could try the next solutions before restarting, it’s up to you. To try
the next solution, go to the settings again and click on search, then searching Windows
from the left. This time click on Advanced search indexer settings which is in blue.
Next, click on advanced and then rebuild and OK. This process is likely to take a while
depending on your PC and the number of items indexed. The final solution I have if the
others have failed is to go to the task manager again and click on the details tab. In here,
find SearchUI and right click on it and select end task. Try searching now to see if that
fixed the problem. Those are all the solutions I have, I really hope one of them managed
to work. I will try and keep the description updated with other solutions as I find them,
and always check the comments for suggestions too. If the video helped hit the like button
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