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Upon restarting the system, I am confronted with a boggling prompt. Passwords are yesterday? A pin number is more secure than a hardened password?
I cannot open thstart menu
I noticed this behavior was linked to the search engine and looked for a way to restart it as a service. But I realized that the search is slowing down the loading of the menu (in some cases stopping it completely). It may be a problem with the way it is written into the code. I'm assuming the new Start Menu is modular in some way - in tablet view it works as the "Start Screen" for phones and tablets and on desktop mode it works like the original Start Menu. But it is highly reliant on Cortana to actually post any results. It looks like this polling may be being done live on the Technical Preview builds and not necessarily through the Search Indexing service, so this may be why its buggy. It also depends on if these preview builds are checked/debug builds, which can significantly reduce performance, as certain logging code and mechanisms would be turned on to output data. Can't be sure but I can tell the Start Menu was built from scratch as a modular modern UI app and is designed to work on multiple device platforms. It cannot render without results from the search engine.Hi Mike.
Well, whadda you know!
I tried the suggestion in my own post - no joy. I was installing up to build 0125 on three different computers. Your suggestion worked on all.
0135 did not cooperate, but that remains a dubious leak anyway, so I am not concerned.
Can you recall from where you got that tip?
I have hunted for days without success, and I would like to follow it up.
Sorry to disappoint but.....This all my be old news, I have seen some reports a 10136 build is out but I have not checked myself. I still hope an official one is released Friday.
Hi Mike.Thanks, MIke.
As a result of my success, I have turned off the search in the services, and totally cleaned out the paths in the index, experimentally. The first thing I have noticed is a quite significant increase in speed of operations and, not very important, an almost instant switch off when I press the shutdown button. It was a practice of mine, back in earlier windows, to close down the Search. I use a small free program called everything, which is , in any case, far quicker than the MS search, and is not resident.
Everything now looking OK for my Windows 10. Now to compare speeds of different functions with Windows 8.1.