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Microsoft's Fix for CPU-Hogging Windows Bug Wrecks Desktop Search

posted by Fnord666 on Saturday September 14 2019, @08:01PM   Printer-friendly
from the business-as-usual dept.

"exec" writes:

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

Microsoft's build 18362.356 (KB4515384​​​​​) for its Windows 10 May 2019 Update (version 1903) rolled out on Tuesday with security improvements for Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge, networking tech and input devices – and a CPU usage fix that, for some, has broken desktop search.

The security tweaks address a variety of speculative execution side-channel vulnerabilities known as microarchitecture data sampling (MDS) for 32-bit x86 versions of Windows. Intel dealt with the CVEs at issue – CVE-2019-11091, CVE-2018-12126, CVE-2018-12127, CVE-2018-12130 – in May.

The update, released concurrently with Build 17763.737 for the Windows 10 October 2018 Update (v1809), also includes security enhancements for assorted Windows components.

Microsoft says its update fixes a high CPU usage problem associated with SearchUI.exe reported by a small number of users who disabled searching the web via Windows Desktop Search.

But its fix has nixed SearchUI.exe for some. Those griping claim SearchUI.exe, a part of Cortana, won't launch after installing KB4515384.

"What a mess – I had the original issue with SearchUI.exe and it sending my CPU to unparalleled heights and showing a big black pane of nothing," wrote Reddit user cyrenaic101 in a complaint thread. "So I uninstalled that turd. And then here comes the 'fix' KB4515384. Search completely broken..."

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 15 2019, @04:29PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 15 2019, @04:29PM (#894368)

    methinks NSA will not let go of hording zero-days.
    however, they need the economy to work "somewhat" so they can get tax monies to pay their "work".
    so combining the two requirements, it seems windblows is "most stable" if you lag the updates about 6 months.
    the m$ can say they're "fixing" windows; the NSA gets borked but up-to-date windblows system that are zer0day for six months and the economy is in a critical state, like a nuclear reactor.

    so, the least trouble is to store your latest windblows update in the cellar for a ripe old age of six months and then apply it. this way you won't show up on the NSA radar for complaining about the latest (today) updated backdoor.

    applying updates as soon as available "might" make you more secure but it will harass you in other ways, it seems.

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