Windows 10: Windows 10 Bugs - Settings/Search Bar/Saving Images

Hello there! So, I've been having some problems today. It started happening a few hours ago after restarting my PC. I was doing an update for my anti virus, and when I started using my computer again, it started bugging out. I'm not sure if that's what caused it, or if something else happened. In general, my PC works fine, it's just a few things that are not working as they should be. One thing is that the search bar does not work. I click on it, and I can type stuff, but it just stays grey with the little blue dots hovering by. I left it for about 5 minutes and nothing happened. Same deal with settings. I open up settings, and I go to a section in it, and it just stays on a white screen with blue dots. I wanted to try troubleshooting it, but, I can only open the troubleshooter through settings, and I can't get to it. Another thing I noticed is when I try to save an image, it doesn't start downloading, and therefore I can't save any images. The only possible way for me to save images at the moment is simply by using a download link, but it can be time consuming to find one sometimes. Since this is a little hard to explain just with words, I'll let you have a look for yourself. I made a short video showing everything that's happening: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdX1O04PXNA&feature=youtu.be

If anyone could help me with this, please do leave a comment. If you need anything from me, like computer information, just say so. If I eventually find a fix, I'll make sure you know what it is, and the fact that I don't need help anymore.

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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.

 

HyperSLI (Enabling SLI on non-sli motherboards)

To turn off windows updates in windows 7 follow these steps:

Click the start button, in the search box type in 'windows updates', click on 'windows update'
in the search results list, in the left side of the windows update window click 'change settings'
then in the option bar select 'Never check for updates'.

 

Windows 10: how to restore search bar in the taskbar?

When I right click on Taskbar, there is no "Search" in the list.