Windows 10: My search bar is really slow, I tried apsolutely everything. It sped up a bit but it still...

I use Windows 11, my search bar was very slow at the beginning so I tried to speed it up, and it kind of worked but it still has a very noticeable delay. Thanks in advance.

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Search Bar/Cortana

Hello,

Thank you for posting your concern here in Microsoft Community and welcome to the Windows 10 family.

From the description, I understand that you are still receiving the pop up notifications, despite having disabled the search functionality in windows 10.

Steps to disable the Search Bar

• Right click on the task bar.
• Select the "Search" option.
• Select "Disable."

However, if the above steps don't work out, perform the below suggested steps and check if it helps to resolve the issue.

Open a CMD window started as Administrator.

Repair corruption: Dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth.

Run this command next: Sfc /scannow

Now run these two commands:

PowerShell -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted

Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers |Where-Object {$_.InstallLocation -like "*SystemApps*"} | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml"}

Hope the above information was helpful.

Thank You.

 

File explorer/search very very very slow

Green search bar takes 10+ minutes to complete its progress across the bar .. working on it ... ..... it says - really i think!!

Since 20H2 'update' the whole OS seems slow to respond and react, with all apps very slow - obviously suspect the file access an search as the culprit. Tried Microsoft - reinstall the whole OS ... great. Did this, not better. Have tried several options including

1. stopping network connection

2. stopping cloud access/services - OneDrive

3. clearing search registries

4. rebuilding search index

5. disabling windows search in system config ...

6. Clearing File Explorer History

7. other 'tweeks' for suggestions

PS Have 100+Gb free on disks; 64G RAM; Xenon Quad processor - system is powerful

.... any other suggestions or anyone else having such issues without resolution?

 

Experiencing slowness when searching for files in Windows 10.

Hi James,

Thank you for posting your query on Microsoft Community,

As per the description, I understand that the computer experience a slowness when searching. We will assist you to resolve the issue.

As a work around, I suggest you to follow the below steps and check if that helps:

• 
  Right Click on the Start Menu.
  
• 
  Click on Task Manager.
  
• 
  Choose Details tab.
  
• 
  Right-click on SearchUI, and
  End task.
  

If the issue persists, I suggest you to run the Search and Indexing troubleshooter and check if that helps to resolve the issue.

1. Type troubleshooting in the search bar.

2. Select Troubleshooting.

3. Select View all on the top left corner.

4. Click Search and Indexing.

5. Follow the on-screen instructions to run the troubleshooter.

6. Check if issue persists.

Hope the information helps. Let us know if you need further assistance. We will be happy to help.

Thank you.