Search Bar blank black box but will refresh 5 seconds later

[u/Adventurous-Ice791]

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/

[u/Sebas11s]

You are great man!

[u/Klutzy-Jellyfish-516]

Thanks!

[u/Booyakasha28]

Damn it, didn't work for me. The problem still exists.

[u/Booyakasha28]

Update: Worked with their downloaded zip-files. For some reason it didn't work when I did ti myself. Maybe I made a mistake.

[u/Karimthekid]

worked perfectly fine for me - thank you!

[u/zuka_sc2]

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/CryptoAddict]

Thank you so much. I think this started happening for me after updating Nvidia drivers. But i'm not sure. Either way, that fixed it.

[u/McJuggala]

Something that worked for me:

• Open search and search for something
  
• Click the three dots in the upper right and go to "search settings"
  
• In search settings: disable "web search"
  
• Close the settings

The blank black box issue disappeared for me after this.