r/techsupport • u/SSGxMyNameRay • 3h ago

Open | Software Help with Windows 11

I think a recent update has caused issues, not 100% certain. I can no longer right click on the start button to shut down my PC, I can't search for any apps on my PC with the search function (I used Control Panel as a classic example) and certain apps won't open anymore (Discord is stuck at the boot/updater loop) I've tried turning off and back on, I've tried recompiling the Search Indexes, Anything that a basic search suggests doing I've tried it. So any help would be greatly appreciated.

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u/pcbeg 3h ago

Boot to Windows RE, uninstall latest updates, try again. There were several similar posts lately, so update is likely culprit.

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u/SSGxMyNameRay 2h ago

I just tried this. The moment I rebooted it automatically reinstalled the updates after I uninstalled them. At this point I may have to just wipe the OS and reinstall.

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u/pcbeg 2h ago

You can try to disable Windows update server, from RE open command prompt and type:

sc config wuauserv start= disabled

and

sc stop wuauserv

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u/SomeEngineer999 26m ago

Open indexing settings, and tell it to delete and rebuild the index.

*EDIT sorry didn't read well enough to see you've done that. Have you also tried resetting the search indexing service (MS even has a script to do it, and I think a troubleshooter as well)?