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Yes, I use Win10 Pro. Checking my update history, the most recently applied updates are shown as being installed on December 27th. These were :

Security Update for Adobe Flash Player – KB4477029

(no description) KB4023057

Cumulative Update (no description) KB4467686

Has anything new been released since then? (I do have quite draconian update settings to ensure I don’t get what I don’t want, especially since when a feature update is introduced, it appears to [mess] about with the drive structure, causing licensed applications to “think” they’ve been copied to a new PC (and all manner of frustrating license resettings then ensue!).

Best,

Marc

Thanks – good to know. I’ll hang back a little and wait until something (hopefully) appears on the list before taking the plunge. Not sure if 1709’s data store for WUShowHide has been deprecated! Cheers,  Marc

Hi folks – not sure if anyone is still suffering from this problem, but if you are, there IS a solution on the Microsoft Technet forum. I can’t tell who the original poster of this solution was so unable to credit them, but the link to the thread is here:

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/c9673cdc-0fa9-4126-9acc-b9ec42222ae3/after-windows-10-fall-update-1709-outlook-search-error?forum=outlook

There’s a lot of noise on the thread, but the little gem which is actually the solution is a registry edit to create a few keys that aren’t migrated correctly during the 1709 upgrade.

As always, hacking the registry is a little like roasting marshmallows in a nuclear reactor so if you’re unsure of anything, don’t do it. But I did it, and it works.

Open regedit and navigate to the following location (and you’ll likely find that you don’t have it – if you can’t locate the path, great; this solution will work for you. If you CAN locate the path, just check that the individual keys listed in it match what you see below. If they don’t, add these new keys into that location, or change the DWord value of your existing matching keys to “1”).

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\Preferences

If you can’t find this path, you’ll need to create the necessary folders by right-clicking the registry keys (folders) and choosing “add key”. You can then name the subfolder to match whatever level you need to create. For me, I had this part of the path …

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows

… but I was missing the last bit : \Windows Search\Preferences

I therefore had to right-click the “windows” folder in the registry editor, and create a new key called “Windows Search”. After that was created, I then right clicked it chose to create another new key called “Preferences”, which then appeared as a subfolder, and that gave me the full path.

Now select the “preferences” key by left clicking it, and create 5 new 32 bit DWords in it by right-clicking in the white space on the right hand panel of the registry editor interface. Then right-click each one in turn and choose to rename them, copy-pasting for the name of each, the following individual strings.

{4154494E-BFF9-01B8-00AA-0037D96E0000}

{C0A19454-7F29-1B10-A587-08002B2A2517}

{70fab278-f7af-cd11-9bc8-00aa002fc45a}

{c34f5c97-eb05-bb4b-b199-2a7570ec7cf9}

{0077B49E-E474-CE11-8C5E-00AA004254E2}

MAKE SURE TO INCLUDE THE CURLY BRACKETS!

Once you’ve got the 5 keys named as above,  double-click each one to bring up the value type-in. Enter the number “1” (don’t include the quotes) for each.

That’s it – you can either reboot (the easy option) or close Outlook 2007 (if it’s running), go into your services control panel (click the start button and type “services” to locate it), restart the “Windows Search” service and then start outlook.

At this point, you should find that search-as-you-type is working once again, and after a little while of new indexing, your search results will appear. Phew!

Whoever discovered this is a genius. I claim no credit but felt I ought to pass it on. Apparently it works for Outlook versions later than 2007 but I haven’t been able to test that.

Best,

Marc

 

Ah – no I didn’t. Thank you for that. Yes, it’s exactly the same problem. Apologies for double-posting.

Best,

Marc

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Elly

Thanks for checking that – it’s been happening for months now. I just tried it again and got exactly the same result of missing main page body content. Weird.

Much appreciated – if anyone has any thoughts on what could be the cause of one user’s version of Edge being OK, and another being problematic in this way, that would be interesting.

Thanks,

Marc

Ah yes, it’s the Tommy Cooper style of tech support : Guy goes to the Dr and says “it hurts when I do this”. Dr says : “Don’t do that.”
It would be nice to understand what’s going on here, or at least to confirm I’m not the only one suffering the issue, as per the query of my original post.

Hi – I think I’ve got to the bottom of this. I use an explorer plugin called “Fast Picture Viewer Codec”, which expands the file explorer’s ability to read various additional file formats. Apparently, there’s a known issue with this whereby some windows updated de-register the codec, but I suspect this is done in a less than elegant fashion. Accordingly, explorer hangs. After 2 reboots I think Windows might automatically disable the codec from loading, as following my 2nd attempt to boot back in, the problem went away but explorer stopped being able to read some of the extra file formats I use.

Repairing the install fixed it.

Cheers,

Marc

Hello Paul – sorry I didn’t get back to you earlier, but I was taking your advice to heart and giving the system a bit of a workout. So far, so good. Thanks for the feedback on this. I’d rebooted once, but after the second time, it seemed to be behaving itself. Cheers!

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Paul T

(Although I endeavour to stress that these KB’s had no effect on the original problem of outlook search no longer being integrated into windows search services).

Best,

Marc