Microsoft recognizes the bug that causes excessive CPU consumption on computers that have installed Build 18362.329

A few days ago the news broke in the specialized forums. Users complained about excessive CPU consumption by Windows. Those who had installed Build 18362.329 on their computers. were affected and expressed their discontent.

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At that time, open threads detailing the problem claimed that the culprit could be the SearchUI.exe file, a Cortana component that could be causing it on some computers CPU usage will increase by 40% on averageIn Microsoft they were aware but they did not pronounce, at least until now, that they have recognized the error."

Microsoft acknowledges bug

When users began to raise the alarm, a response was expected from the US multinational. At that time they stated that there was no reason for the complaint and Build 18362.329 works correctly without any problem. Something that apparently is not so.

To do this they have used the social network Twitter and the Microsoft Windows Update account. In it they finished acknowledging the existence of a CPU usage problem in Build 18362.329, which comes with patch KB4512941.

Affected users were also complaining that this issue had already been reported to the company prior to the release of Build, so that they hoped would have been purged.Especially, when the company had announced that it would carefully review the releases and the feedback generated by Insiders to avoid failures in the Builds.

For now There is no official solution from Microsoft. It should be remembered that some users reported a procedure to solve the problem if they do not want to choose to uninstall the update. These are the steps they offered:

• Computer \ HKEY CURRENT USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Search
• Record Name: BingSearchEnabled
• Register value: 0

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If, on the contrary, you are affected by this problem and do not want intermediate solutions, you can always uninstall the update. For this it is necessary to go to the route Settings, Update and security and within it Click on View update historyThe next step is to use the Uninstall updates option by checking the update KB4512941 and then clicking the Uninstall button "

Source | Mary Jo Foley on Twitter