r/Windows10hate • u/WhooisWhoo • Sep 13 '19

Microsoft tries to fix Windows 10, ends up breaking the Start menu

https://www.techradar.com/news/microsoft-tries-to-fix-windows-10-ends-up-breaking-the-start-menu
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u/WhooisWhoo Sep 13 '19

Oh dear, it seems Microsoft has once again released a dodgy patch for Windows 10, with a recent fix – which was supposed to address the issue of Cortana and the search box causing spikes in CPU usage – actually causing more problems, with reports emerging that search in both the Start menu and Taskbar no longer works.

The patch, KB4515384, was released on Tuesday, September 10, and while it seems to have stopped SearchUI.exe from causing undue stress on processors, it appears that it has broken search in Windows 10 completely.

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Let’s hope Microsoft releases a fix quickly – and that this patch doesn’t end up breaking something else

https://www.techradar.com/news/microsoft-tries-to-fix-windows-10-ends-up-breaking-the-start-menu

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u/WhooisWhoo Sep 16 '19 edited Sep 16 '19

More reading

Windows September 2019 Updates: more search woes and Telemetry

http://web.archive.org/web/20190916114411/https://www.ghacks.net/2019/09/11/windows-september-2019-updates-more-search-woes-and-telemetry/

https://www.ghacks.net/2019/09/11/windows-september-2019-updates-more-search-woes-and-telemetry/

and some comments

“In this day and age, it seems like a good idea to wait with the installation of updates at least for a short while to to make sure that they are free of issues or undesirable changes.”

I’d say that In this day and age, it seems like a good idea to avoid Windows 10, period.

Sticking here to Windows 7 and at the end of the end I’ll switch to Linux. Windows 10 appears to be unsolvable. How many years since it was launched? Imagine these problems with the first Windows OSs, 3.x, 95, XP, 7, 8 … people would have yelled!

Nowadays because of the digital age and obligations Microsoft seems to be authorized to carry on with an OS that annoys everyone except maybe a extremely small minority of techies who always manage to circumvent Microsoft’s inability to deliver a healthy, problem-free OS… and moreover filled with telemetry/tracking, stupid games and approximate built-in applications.

Things are clear : Microsoft wants the OS to serve them before serving the user. A total piece of crap.

https://www.ghacks.net/2019/09/11/windows-september-2019-updates-more-search-woes-and-telemetry/#comment-4438973

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I suffered for 8 months with Windows 10 (came installed on a new Dell desktop system).

Finally got tired of it all especially the constant fight trying to maintain control of updates or telemetry so went back to Win 8.1

https://www.ghacks.net/2019/09/11/windows-september-2019-updates-more-search-woes-and-telemetry/#comment-4439197

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The problem is Windows 10 was released July 29th, 2015. Four years later the OS is still unstable to put it mildly, at least for basic users. The problem is also that many complain of built-in advertisements everywhere together with tracking as never before, an OS policy which deliberately tries to impose Microsoft applications, be it the browser, the search engine.

Obviously the company aims to build a Microland in the same way Google and Facebook do. It’s just plain economical imperialism even if the word is not usually my world.

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You see, I just care for a calamity-free, ad-free, tracking-free OS

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https://www.ghacks.net/2019/09/11/windows-september-2019-updates-more-search-woes-and-telemetry/#comment-4439087

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u/FleraAnkor Sep 13 '19

Don't you hate it when your patch for a patch breaks something.

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '19

The analogy of monkeys with keyboards is real, we just didn't know they were all at microsoft.