{"id":234836,"date":"2026-04-09T02:25:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T07:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/microsoft-rolls-out-fix-for-broken-windows-start-menu-search"},"modified":"2026-04-09T02:25:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T07:25:37","slug":"microsoft-rolls-out-fix-for-broken-windows-start-menu-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/microsoft-rolls-out-fix-for-broken-windows-start-menu-search","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft rolls out fix for broken Windows Start Menu search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microsoft-rolls-out-fix-for-broken-windows-start-menu-search.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft has pushed a server-side fix for a known issue that broke the Windows Start Menu search feature on some Windows 11 23H2 devices.<\/p>\n<p>In a Windows release health update (<a href=\"https:\/\/admin.cloud.microsoft\/Adminportal\/Home?source=applauncher#\/windowsreleasehealth\/:\/issue\/WI1273488\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">WI1273488<\/a>) seen by BleepingComputer, Microsoft said these problems have affected only a small number of users since April 6 and are caused by a server-side Bing update aimed at improving search performance.<\/p>\n<p>While the company says these problems are recent, there have been reports of similar issues surfacing online for months, including <a href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/answers\/questions\/5648899\/windows-11-start-menu-search-and-search-shows-blan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">claims<\/a> that the Start Menu displays blank search results that are still clickable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has pushed a server-side fix for a known issue that broke the Windows Start Menu search feature on some Windows 11 23H2 devices. In a Windows release health update (WI1273488) seen by BleepingComputer, Microsoft said these problems have affected only a small number of users since April 6 and are caused by a server-side [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}