As I type into the search bar, the Search box opens up black with no search response. Worked perfectly before this update was installed. Uninstall this update and only this kb and search working correctly and perfectly immediately with no other changes whatsoever.
Cumulative updates January 2021
This is a summary of the cumulative updates released on January 12th for all the supported consumer releases of Windows 10.
- Windows 10 version 2004 and version 20H2 - KB4598242, Build 19041.746 and 19042.746
- Windows 10 versions 1909 - KB4598229, Build 18363.1316
UPDATED 1/12/21
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Anonymous
2021-01-13T11:31:20+00:00 -
Anonymous
2021-01-13T11:17:20+00:00 In what way does it break the File Explorer search function. Just tried mine and it seems to work as before.
You may need to report back in the Feedback Hub.
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Anonymous
2021-01-13T11:01:27+00:00 Yet another update that breaks the built-in search operation.
This update Jan 12th 2021 - KB4598242 totally kills windows search so have had to uninstall it and block it from update.
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Anonymous
2021-01-13T10:32:44+00:00 I tryed to update my laptop now i cant use it as there is a revevery error ??
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Anonymous
2021-01-13T10:14:15+00:00 Just got up to find m laptop has a blank screen on power up, and my main desktop computer is stuck on cleaning up updates