Search bar not working on Windows 10

Today (the 5th of February), I noticed that when I click on the "Type here to search" bar, it opens but nothing shows-up. It's just a grey box. I've tried shutting-down my laptop and starting it up again to see if that would work, but it hasn't.

Has anyone else encountered this problem, and if so is there a fix to it? I've included a screenshot below for reference.

EDIT: So it turns out I just needed to do the update that's been rolled-out recently; I can click on the search bar and everything shows-up as it's supposed to.

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Hi Finland,
I am Sumit, an Independent Advisor and a 3 year Windows Insider MVP here to help.

This is being reported by many people. Can you log a feedback and share the feedback link with me so that I can escalate?

https://support.microsoft.com/en-in/help/402156...

When done adding feedback you should see it in my feedback after a while. Click it and select Share to generate a link.
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This will solve your issue:

To start, open the Registry Editor by hitting Start and typing “regedit”. Double-click the “Registry Editor” shortcut that appears (or press Enter) and click Yes to the UAC prompt.


Start Menu Search with arrows pointing to regedit search and registry editor result.

In the Registry Editor use the left sidebar to navigate to the following key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Search
Registry Editor with box around Search key

Right-click the Search icon and choose New > DWORD (32-bit) Value. Name the new value BingSearchEnabled.

Registry Editor with box around BingSearchEnabled DWORD.

Double-click the new BingSearchEnabled value to open its properties dialog. The number in the “Value data” box should already be 0—just ensure it’s still 0. Click OK to continue.

DWORD properties dialog with box around Value and arrow pointing to OK button.

Below BingSearchEnabled, you should see  CortanaConsent. Double-click this value to open its properties dialog. Change its “Value Data” box to “0”.

If you don’t see CortanaConsent, create it by following the same steps you used to create BingSearchEnabled.

Registry editor with box around CortanaConsent DWORD.

You can close the Registry Editor now. If you search your start menu, you should now see only local results. If the change doesn’t take effect immediately, restart your PC.

Windows 10 desktop with Start Menu search and no Bing web results

If you want web search results back, all you have to do is open the Registry Editor and change the BingSearchEnabled and CortanaConsent values back to 1.

I hope this information helps!

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Thank you for such a quick reply, and I'm somewhat glad to see I'm not the only person being affected by this. I'll submit the feedback right away.

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I have the exact same issue and more. Quite a few processes are suspended for no reason.

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I submitted feedback but I didn't sign in; will I still receive an email or other notification about it? How long will it take for this issue to be fixed?

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I'll update in this thread - I even hit the same issue too. It might take a while to fix as it is early in Redmond.
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Okay, thank you very much, and thanks a lot for your time and help again!

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We are experiencing this issue as well throughout our organization. This is definitely a bug caused by some recent update or something. Everything worked well yesterday. 

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The fix worked perfectly! Thank you for your expertise. 

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Thank you! It worked for me too.

I experienced this in the last three hours on both my PCs.

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