KB5050081 Preview Update causes odd things (0x800f0835 error, no new outlook, search bar being strange)

I made a couple posts about this before but thought to make a single post so it won't come off as spammy

KB5050081, which was released a couple days ago gave me multiple issues when trying to install it, the .NET framework update installed fine, however KB5050081 got stuck on a snag and kept getting caught at 74%, I decided to restart all windows update processes such as windows modules installer, windows modules installer worker and mouso core worker process

after doing this, I retried updating and eventually I got slapped with a 0x800f0835 error, said error has rarely any mention online besides a couple of posts for windows 10 upon restarting the processes, it began to get stuck on 20% and fail again with the same error so I decided after this to restart the laptop and it managed to work I guess? someone back in december had a similar situation as seen here with another update with a similar "fix" to mine https://www.tenforums.com/windows-updates-activation/217057-kb5048652-update-december-fails-install-0x800f0835-error.html

but I wanna further mention my concern here, could this same problem happen again? is this just a case of a example of a unstable preview update? despite winver showing I'm the latest preview build and the "fix", the update appeared to have caused some things such as the new outlook being not installed and something being broken, as yesterday upon running /SFC scannow, it said broken files got fixed which is the first time I ever encountered such a thing, since then I ran it a few times and nothing has happened yet I feel like I am still not in the clear

The search bar's little image on the right (the "search highlights" thing) has broke partially too, in which the default image (when for example you hide one of the highlights that the image relates to) aka the star one appears instead rather than the proper daily one. This happens after a certain amount of time but search is still usable, the only way to get the image back is ending the search process and having it reappear, or in some cases restarting the laptop but that's a hit or miss

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I do want to note I can note that the search process for some reason keeps having that "This UWP process group is suspending processes to improve system performance" thing happen to it, and I do not recall search ever having that apply to it before, could that be interfering with it?

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Hello, I am Mite, an independent advisor and a user like you, and I am here to offer help.

It could be the problem that your system is corrupted. You can try repairing your system and see how it goes. Here are the steps:
Download the Windows installation iso file first. Then, decompress the iso file. Open the folder from the decompressed files. You should see a setup.exe file. Open it. Follow the instructions to install Windows. There should be an option allowing you to keep your personal files and apps. That option is for repairing Windows, though it is very similar to reinstalling Windows, but it is not. However, I still recommend you to backup important files.

Here are the links to download Windows installation iso files:
Windows 11:
https://www.microsoft.com/software-download/win...

Windows 10:
https://www.microsoft.com/software-download/win...

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okay but how would my system get corrupted if I did nothing beforehand? the preview update suddenly got stuck, I tried to fix it, and then this happened

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Update but regarding the search highlights, earlier it briefly "fixed" itself on it's own before reverting back to the default starry image as seen in the image above, I believe it's not totally broken but something is interfering with it

any ideas?

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it did it again

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I notice some oddities here but anytime the UWP thing is placed on the search process, the default starry image is shown, when the UWP is not active, the search process takes over a hundred MB (180 to about 230) of memory and sometimes fixes the search highlights image

could the UWP being interfering with this? or is something else happening here?

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There could be multiple reasons. For example, some updates break the system, or some applications modify the system and corrupt it accidentally, etc.

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wouldn't the scanning stuff have fixed this? I already had a repair install late last month

I see no other issues besides the ones i mentioned

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okay so the search highlights image thing fixed itself three times last night and recently, I have a odd feeling the process in charge of the thing is crashing?, if it semi-works, its not totally broken

something is up

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found a post from 2024 with a similar issue but worse (theirs completely vanished) and it says it was updated on the 29th of last month apparently? not sure what though

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Okay, so I decided to run the following command: dism /online /clean-image /startcomponentcleanup per the suggestion of a friend

It did nothing to the search but I frequently keep noticing the following:

At random times, the highlights image gets briefly fixed, this lasts for about a few hours before reverting back to the default starry one, restarting or shutting down and booting up sometimes fixes it for a bit as well

UWP being active on the search process commonly co-exists when the starry one appears

When the search process has no UWP, it takes up a bit of memory, I believe UWP might be doing something about it's memory usage and in return, making the highlights image goof up a little

could anyone else have similar issues?

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