Windows 10: Windows Search and News and Interests stops working after updating to newer version of Windows

I have been using Windows Insider Program for 7 years now and I never faced any problem with any Windows program for 6 years. But I have noticed that since last year whenever I update to a newer version Windows Search stopped working completely. Whenever I tried to start it, it would open a for a few seconds and then close immediately. Ever since News and Interests was introduced in Microsoft Windows, I never could open that too. Both of these features would start working only after 2 months which is really inconvenient. I currently have Windows 10 Home Single Language Version Dev OS Buil

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FIXED!! Windows 7 sp1 never ends searching for updates

Pros:

• No need for a script, easy to apply manually
  
• Much smaller download, seems that KB3020369 is not required, only SP1 is needed

Cons:

• Windows Update Client downloaded by the script is newer (June 2016 version is included in KB3172605 instead of March 2016)
• You will still need to download/install hundreds of updates afterwards, most of them are already included in KB3125574 and installed by the script

 

FIXED!! Windows 7 sp1 never ends searching for updates

need KB4048970 if using Vista - that's the latest win32k.sys patch. while it's listed for Windows Server 2008 only, it should also install & work under Vista SP2 as I've tested myself on an old Vista machine.

for Win7 SP1, KB3172605 or better to speed up Windows Update searches as noted here:
Search for Windows Updates takes forever? - A possible solution

 

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'.